Claim: Private renting is making millions of people ill.
Fact-check: Quarter of private renters experience sickness over housing worries—but we don't know if private renting is the cause - Full Fact
Verdict: a survey found almost a quarter of private renters agree that housing worries have made them ill in the past year. this doesn't mean the sickness was specifically caused by renting privately as opposed to any other type of housing situation.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-01-21T00:00:00