More American cities – even those seen as affluent – are home to people living without running water as people are being 'squeezed' by unaffordable housing and the cost-of-living crisis, new research finds.
King's College LondonDec 20 2024 More American cities – even those seen as affluent – are home to people living without running water as people are being 'squeezed' by unaffordable housing and the cost-of-living crisis, new research finds.
The researchers from King's College London and the University of Arizona said the findings should "raise alarm bells" and warned it would take a "heroic" transformation of housing conditions and social infrastructures for the USA to meet the United Nations goal for everyone to have access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
The compound pressures of high housing costs and expenditures mean that more low-income, asset-limited people are living without running water in these expensive cities. Far too many people, especially those of color, are now in such extreme poverty they are being pushed into homes that do not meet the basic standard for human dignity and life."
Lucy Everitt, a PhD student at King's College London who was part of the research team, said water service shut-offs are a hidden problem across US cities that may be indirectly picked up by US census data.
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