Report finds that more than 40 percent of British housing is substandard

Housing charity Shelter has marked the 50th anniversary of its founding by issuing a report on the standard of housing in Britain today. ... They came up with five basic parameters or “dimensions”: affordability, decent conditions, space, stability and neighbourhood. The five dimensions were then subdivided into a total of 39 attributes, some classed as “essential” and some as “tradable.”