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The report by the DHSC offers findings from a national review of how housing features in local strategic health planning documents in England.

To coincide with Carers Week 2026, Housing LIN is pleased to feature a new three-part blog series from Julie Smyth, Director at Wellbeing Designs, exploring the changing role of care homes and the people who deliver compassionate care every day.

In today’s Housing LIN newsletter, we invite you to tomorrow’s HAPPI Hour webinar, Designing Homes and Communities that Reduce Isolation and Build Connection. We also share updates from across the housing, health and care sectors, including the Southwest Leadership Set's away day, new reports on smart homes and multigenerational living, a Pride in Place webinar recording, and a guest blog by the National Care Forum's Honor Westlake.

Housing LIN’s South West Leadership Set met for its annual awayday in St Ives, Cornwall, with thanks to Poynton Bradbury Architects for hosting the event at their offices.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Honor Westlake, Policy, Research and Projects Officer at the National Care Forum, reflects on her experience of the Future Leaders Programme and how it reshaped her understanding of leadership.

This Canadian Standards Association Public Policy Centre's new report explores how multigenerational housing can support ageing in place, strengthen caregiving networks, and reshape housing policy in Canada.

Coordinated by the Scottish Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, ‘Envision, the digital blueprint for a smart home of the future’ is a practical blueprint and guidance for delivering the next generation of homes that are affordable to run, aligned with net zero, and designed to support the health and wellbeing of their residents.

Welcome back to this week's Housing LIN newsletter, HLINKs! This week's edition includes a summary of the Guidance on the Affordable Homes Programme by Winckworth Sherwood; HAPPI Hour webinar recording on global accessibility and inclusive design in practice; More's Meadows almshouses wins a RIBA East regional award; New design guide by HOUSE on space for wellbeing; two new Housing LIN guest blogs; and lots more!

A new design guide, Space for Wellbeing, based on research by HOUSE, questions how can we design homes that truly contribute to the wellbeing of (future) older adults?

Congratulations to architects Haysom Ward Miller for their stunning almshouses design for Great Shelford Village Charity in Cambridgeshire.