This mix of studies – 39 in total – looked at changes in health following improvements such as insulation, installation of central heating, housing-led neighbourhood renewal, rehousing from slums, and provision of basic housing amenities in low- and middle-income countries.
Interventions to improve housing conditions included warmth and energy efficiency (15 studies), rehousing and refurbishment with or without neighbourhood renewal (11 studies, 10 of UK neighbourhood renewal interventions), and rehousing from slums (4 studies).
But the number of Syrians who can be rehoused in Europe from Turkey has been capped at 72,000, far short of the 108,000 a year recommended by international aid agencies, if the EU is to do its fair share.
He travelled to the former Yugoslavia in 1999 and spent five years working for a German charity helping to rehouse refugees from the civil war.
Neither does it mention that 200 of the 808 residential units are earmarked for rehousing residents from the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates.
The council recovers some of its costs in the form of fines and unpaid council tax, but the occupants of the premises become homeless – a new problem for the council which may then have a duty to rehouse them, from its increasingly non-existent housing stock.
At least two have been split up during the re-housing process, with older children, in their late teens rehoused in separate accommodation from their parents.
Meanwhile, Squires's mother-of-two Katie is similarly being given the runaround, rehoused hundreds of miles from her friends and family in London after spending two years in a hostel.
Hundreds of council tenants are also facing being rehoused several miles away from their community because only 12.5% of the 2,000 new homes that will replace the 679 residences being demolished, will be classed as affordable – a net reduction of 199 homes classed as affordable or social on the site.
Government guidance states that local authorities are not prohibited from rehousing homeless families away from their home borough, but adds that it is "neither acceptable nor fair for local authorities to place households many miles away from their previous home where it is avoidable".
