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Renting ages your cells faster than unemployment or being an ex-smoker

October 11, 2023 /

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A new study has found that renting privately is more strongly associated with faster biological aging – how old your cells are regardless of actual age – than unemployment or being an ex-smoker. The findings highlight the important link between housing and health and indicate that improving housing should be a focus of health interventions.

By Paul McClure

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2023, Missoula Community Planning, Development & Innovation – Housing Landscape Assessment

Missoula’s first comprehensive city-wide housing policy, A Place to Call Home: Meeting Missoula’s Housing Needs, was approved by City Council on June 24, 2019. The policy attempts to both spur and harness the market to better provide housing at a wide range of entry points, and to ensure that all Missoulians can obtain safe and decent homes.

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