Housing Loneliness and Health

This Essay asks whether housing, loneliness and health are connected in contemporary Australia, and if they are, is it a nexus that can be addressed positively through housing policy. Since loneliness has only recently emerged as a generalised and disturbing feature of contemporary societies, there is practically no evidence of housing policy that addresses it explicitly or directly. It will be argued that high and increasing rates of loneliness are relevant to future housing policy, not least because housing, loneliness and health are interlinked.