Recovery must not trigger a race to the bottom

By Sadie Morgan2020-05-18T05:00:00

Lockdown has forced us to focus on what makes healthy homes and neighbourhoods - which we need to remember as we rebuild our economy

By the time this piece is published we could all know a bit more about what life ahead might look like. European countries are each discussing and implementing their varied covid lockdown exit plans, and the UK is cautiously following suit. Meanwhile, we are all teetering on the edge of our sofas and home-office chairs, waiting to hear what the next ‘normal’ might be.

It is never easy knowing the fate of your life is essentially in someone else’s hands, and perhaps the hardest thing to contend with during this pandemic has been the inability to steer our own course into the future. Yet, as the big decisions are being made for us, we should remember what we still have the power to change as we move into the new unknown.

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