Why Is This Important?
Well-designed and well-constructed housing is critical for people’s wellbeing, not just for aesthetic and environmental reasons. Poorly designed, inefficient and unaffordable housing not only affects individual and household wellbeing and expenses, but is a cost to everyone as it impacts on health, social spending and the environment. The homes we live in today will provide most of Jersey’s housing stock for the next 20 years. Investing in the improvement of this existing stock over time will benefit health, energy use, household costs and life satisfaction.