Study Reveals Renting Ages You Faster Than Smoking or Obesity

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Surprisingly, new study from the Universities of Adelaide and Essex shows that renting is worse for your health than smoking or being overweight. Researchers found that the stress of renting has an unexpected effect on aging, showing that it speeds up the process by over two weeks every year. We were shocked to hear this bad news, which shows how living in privately rented housing can hurt your health.

The new study shows that the rate of getting older among people who rent from private owners is higher than the rates for people who are unemployed, overweight, or even used to smoke. Emma Baker, a professor of housing research at the University of Adelaide, says that private renting speeds up a person’s biological clock by “about two-and-a-half weeks” per year. This is different from social renting, like public housing, which doesn’t have the same negative effects.

Professor Baker thinks that the insecurity and lack of security that come with private renting play a big role in this faster aging process. The study shows that people who live in their own homes or live in government housing, which gives them more security, do not have the same negative effects on their health.

This groundbreaking study throws light on the effects of not having a safe place to live that are often ignored. It urges a more in-depth examination of the wider social effects of living with the uncertainty of lease renewals. The results are important because they make us think about what might happen to people who live in unstable homes in the long term.