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Why Renting is a Health Risk

This episode of The Signal, an ABC podcast, features Prof Rebecca Bentley:


From their website:

Some health risks are obvious, like smoking, or eating too much sugar. But what about renting?

As many as a million Australians live in housing that harms their health, with renters the worst off.

So what's the health cost of having so much substandard housing?

And how do you even begin to fix a problem like that?

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