Social Policy researcher @achr_adl and research associate @MiSoC_Essex. Focusing on housing, health & well-being. She/her. amy-clair.bsky.social
Joined October 2014
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31 Aug 2021
My new paper in @IJHPEditors explores cuts to housing benefit for private renters in England– finding that cuts led to a statistically significant increase in overcrowding of 5%, or an additional ~75,000 households living in overcrowded homes bit.ly/2WEnF0m (open access)
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28 Nov 2022
Has tenancy law reform caused disinvestment in the rental market? Not so far, but maybe it should? …could encourage incompetent landlords to cash out of sector? Excellent new research by @dr_chris_martin and colleagues. #rentinginAustralia @AHURI_Research
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24 Nov 2022
Here's a quick thread about government, social housing and the lack of regulation to ensure tenants have some protection when housing management goes wrong. Because... well... there is a certain level of hypocrisy from current ministers which can't be left unaddressed
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22 Nov 2022
Appalled by news today of a pilot programme with GPs 'prescribing' heating for patients with health conditions likely to be made worse by cold and damp. Further medicalising poverty and loading problems onto the NHS because of the failure of other parts of the system. 1/7
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21 Nov 2022
We are looking for 2 quant researchers to work on the health impacts of welfare and employment programmes. jobs.ac.uk/job/CUX752/postdo… #EpiTwitter #EconTwitter #DataScientist @vkatikireddi @alexsingleton @ProfBambra @profbuchan @Matt_Data_Geek @dataevan @amyclair503 @aaronsreeves
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16 Nov 2022
I’ve been collaborating on this piece with @GuardianAus for months, and I could be more excited to have it out in the open. Please read and share to highlight the urgent need for better protections for renters (and you’ll understand my PhD topic) theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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7 Nov 2022
Lots to take from this morning's closing statements at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, but this from Danny Friedman KC is probably worth sharing. The inquiry has shown a world absent empathy. As well as all the technical stuff, that needs to change
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24 Oct 2022
.@_HealthyCities_ and my new paper exploring the mental health impacts of no longer living in a home that is warm enough is available now (open access, pre-proof). Taking a social harm perspective we find that... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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24 Oct 2022
transitioning into living in a cold home is associated with a doubling of the risk of severe mental distress for those who previously had no mental health symptoms, and a tripling in the risk for those who were previously on the borderline of mental distress
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2 Nov 2022
re-sharing the graph with alt-text. sorry for not doing this before!
ALT Forest plot-style graph showing the odds ratios for increased risk of severe mental distress after entry into cold housing. Models are reported for two populations: the first had borderline (but not severe) mental distress levels at wave 1 of survey, the other had mental distress at wave 1 of the survey. Four models are reported for each population: a baseline model (no control variables), a model including demographic variables, a model including housing as well as demographic variables, and a model including demographic, housing and financial variables. This last model, including all controlling variables, results in an odds ratio of around 2 for the population with no prior mental distress and over 3 for those with prior mental distress.
1 Nov 2022
A summary of our paper available now in @socscimed showing the mental health effects of cold homes in the UK doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.… @_HealthyCities_
31 Oct 2022
Shocking impact of cold homes "For people who previously had no mental health problems, the odds of severe mental distress doubled when they had a cold home" @ESRC @MiSoC_Essex RA @amyclair503 uses @usociety data for this in @ConversationUK piece theconversation.com/cold-hom…
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19 Oct 2022
Our latest report, The impact of the pandemic on the Australian rental sector, was undertaken by researchers from @UniofAdelaide @UniversitySA @CurtinUni @Swinburne @UniMelb.
Download the #AHURIResearch here → bit.ly/3TygKxo
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4 Oct 2022
Some really interesting points about data collection for rental applications and the power imbalance in renting in Australia (and elsewhere)
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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27 Sep 2022
I feel very grateful to have been appointed a Professor @DSPI @UniofOxford and want to express my appreciation for all those ppl who have supported me. But I would also like to reflect on further education in the UK bc I wouldn't have achieved this w/out one of those colleges
27 Sep 2022
🎉 Congratulations to @aaronsreeves, who has been awarded the title of full Professor in @UniofOxford's Recognition of Distinction exercise. Read more: dspi.web.ox.ac.uk/article/re…
ALT Professor Aaron Reeves
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12 Sep 2022
New paper out today - Housing inequality: a systematic scoping review. An outstanding first paper from @housingishome Housing inequality is about much more than housing… (free link) bitly.ws/udMX
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17 Aug 2022
We made estimates of fuel poverty unless something is done published by @cpaguk here cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/news-…
They have been updated again here jonathanbradshaw.blogspot.co…
Horrifying.
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27 Jul 2022
What’s driving England’s housing crisis?
In part, it’s because we’re now a country of *multiple* home ownership and private renters.
In the last 20 years the proportion of adults owning multiple homes doubled, the %s of 16-34 y/os buying a home almost halved. 🏘️🧵
ALT Graph entitled: Since 2000 the number of adults who own multiple dwellings more than doubled, at the expense of younger audlts; the number of 16-34 y/os buying or owning their own home has almost halved. It shows the number of adults aged 16-34 owning their home has fallen by 15m between 2000 and 2020, and the numbers of adults owning multiple homes has increased by 1.7m over the same period.
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25 Jul 2022
All housing tenures include some crap homes, but some tenures are far more likely to provide crap homes than others.
Incentives in the PRS are clearly broken, especially where homes are older. Landlords won't invest if benefits accrue to tenants who can't afford to pay more.
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Amy Clair retweeted
#FoodInsecurity is a crisis that threatens to engulf the entire world, and the UK is NOT immune from it.
To know more, check our Policy Brief authored by Drs @JFledderjohann1 @amyclair503 and @OatBran9 documenting #FoodInsecurity in the UK.
cfj-lancaster.org.uk/files/p…
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