Living in a privately rented home is linked to more rapid biological ageing, according to researchers who tested DNA and found the tenure is associated with twice the ageing effect of obesity and half that of smoking.
The peer-reviewed study of 1,420 UK householders found housing circumstances can “get under the skin” with significant consequences for health, said academics at the University of Essex and the University of Adelaide . Their findings were published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
It never feels like yours when you can be removed on a whim. Not having a place to call home is super taxing. Even a mobile home is a home, for most of our history we suspect we were nomadic mostly. But we took home with us and it was ours.
Every six months some 18 year old.walks through my house and judges how I live. I have to hassle some psycho REA to perform basic repairs, I have no agency.
It shouldn’t be shocking that it wears on our psychology.
I have a dope camp set up, with a nice setup for small cooking. I regularly go out, on my own, and spend days away in the desert or the forests nearby. In those moments, I feel a relief that I don’t get at home in my rental. I own my 4x4, I own my solar panels and portable battery banks, I own my tent and so on.
Even though it’s meagre compared to the house I live in, it’s mine.