Residential Wellbeing

Sirgy, M. Joseph

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-71888-6_18

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“…There is limited empirical evidence for increases in housing space consumption improving subjective wellbeing for people who already have sufficient housing space to satisfy their needs, with evidence that people moving into larger homes quickly habituate and experience no or little long-run improvements in subjective wellbeing (Foye, 2017). Enjoyment of housing space is also affected by the quality of services provided in the surrounding neighbourhood (Sirgy, 2021). These suggest that voluntary reductions in the consumption of housing space by those with high levels of space could come with little adverse impact on wellbeing if embedded within high quality neighbourhood services.…”

Section: More Efficient Use Of Existing Housing Stockmentioning

confidence: 99%

A home for all within planetary boundaries: pathways for meeting England’s housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals

Ermgassen¹,

Drewniok²,

Bull³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Secure housing is a fundamental human right. However, potential conflicts between housing and sustainability objectives remain under-researched. We explore the impact of current English government housing policy, and alternative housing strategies, on national carbon and biodiversity goals. Using material flow and land use change/biodiversity models, we estimate under current policy housing alone would consume 113% of England’s cumulative carbon budget for 2050 (2.9/2.5Gt [50% chance of <1.5°C]); 12% from the construction and operation of newbuilds and 101% from the existing stock. Housing expansion also potentially conflicts with England’s biodiversity targets. However, meeting greater housing need without rapid housing expansion is theoretically possible. We review solutions including improving affordability by reducing demand for homes as financial assets, expanding social housing, and reducing underutilisation of floor-space. Transitioning to housing strategies which slow housing expansion and accelerate low-carbon retrofits would achieve lower emissions, but face an unfavourable political economy and structural economic barriers.

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Section: More Efficient Use Of Existing Housing Stockmentioning

confidence: 99%

A home for all within planetary boundaries: pathways for meeting England’s housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals

Ermgassen¹,

Drewniok²,

Bull³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Flexibility of the home and residents’ psychological wellbeing

Jagannath,

Gatersleben,

Ratcliffe

2024

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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Differences in and drivers of mental, social, functional, and financial well-being during COVID-19: Evidence from Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa

Hoffmann

Plotkina²,

Broihanne³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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COVID-19 has a substantial and unexpected impact on individuals’ daily life around the world. Unprecedented public health restrictions such as lockdowns have the potential to affect multiple dimensions of individuals’ well-being, while the severity of such restrictions varies across countries. However, a holistic perspective comparing differences in and drivers of the different dimensions of well-being across countries differentially affected by COVID-19 is missing to date. We address this gap in the literature by examining the mental, social, functional, and financial well-being of 2,100 individuals across Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa by means of a survey administered during May of 2021. Supporting our holistic approach, we find that the different dimensions of well-being are correlated, with survey respondents from France reporting the lowest and those from Australia reporting the highest overall level of well-being. Respondents’ subjective and objective evaluations of their living conditions during lockdowns as well as positive health and financial behaviors are positively associated with their well-being during the pandemic.

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Residential Wellbeing

Cited by 3 publications

References 74 publications

A home for all within planetary boundaries: pathways for meeting England’s housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals

A home for all within planetary boundaries: pathways for meeting England’s housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals

Flexibility of the home and residents’ psychological wellbeing

Differences in and drivers of mental, social, functional, and financial well-being during COVID-19: Evidence from Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa

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