About This Event

Join a live Healthy Housing Initiative podcast on housing challenges impacting emergency and healthcare professionals. Can emergency service and healthcare professionals afford to live in the communities they serve? Rising housing costs and affordability pressures are creating significant challenges for workers across the emergency services and healthcare sectors. For some, accessing suitable housing can mean longer commutes, difficult financial decisions or moving away from the places where they work. These pressures may also have wider implications for wellbeing, recruitment, retention and the resilience of essential public services. This live podcast event will bring together professionals from housing, emergency services, healthcare and related sectors to explore these issues through an accessible and engaging conversation. Speakers will discuss the barriers frontline workers can face in accessing affordable housing, the impacts on individuals, organisations and communities, and the potential policy and practice responses. The event will include a live audience Q&A and opportunities for discussion. The podcast will also be recorded and shared following the event, extending the conversation to a wider audience and helping raise awareness of the links between housing affordability and the front line workforce.

Staying overnight?

Hotels within walking distance of The University of Huddersfield Oastler Building.

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