New paper by Ang Li , Emma Baker, and Rebecca Bentley has been published in Social Science and Medicine , looking at how stable and secure tenancy affects the mental health and level of psychological distress of private renters compared to home owners. The results suggest that stability helps to close the mental health gap between those two groups by increasing renters well being at a faster rate overtime. This is interesting to me for two reasons: 1) it suggests that ontological security is more important than tenure type. It isn't necessarily homeownership that is protective of mental health. 2) it underscores the relationship between housing and mental health, and that the rights of tenants should be considered a public health issue. Here is the abstract for ' Understanding the mental health effects of instability in the private rental sector: A longitudinal analysis of a national cohort ': Using a population-based longitudinal dataset in Australia ov...