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So were incurable bacterial infections, high childhood death rates and even Human Rights.

In England, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has established the Nationally Described Space Standard [1], which specifies that a one-bedroom, one-person flat should have a minimum gross internal floor area of 37 square meters if it includes a shower room, or 39 square meters if it has a bathroom.

I guess anything significantly below that can be called outright poverty.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-housing...


Another common criteria for salubrity of habitation is that the rent shouldn’t be more than 1/3 of your liquid income.

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