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Local Housing Strategy
Updated on 09/09/2010
Local Authorities and their partner organisations are responsible for shaping the housing market across social and private housing, new build and existing stock. The resources listed below include guides for planning in local areas for an ageing population as well as methodologies for calculating levels and types of need.
- A good place to grow older: learning and innovation from local government This publication from the Local Government Group and Department for Work and Pensions outlines innovative practice from councils around the country that are developing a better future for their older...
- More Choice, Greater Voice - a toolkit for producing a strategy for accommodation with care for older people A toolkit prepared specifically to accompany the government's new National Housing Strategy for an Ageing Society to offer guidance to commissioners and providers to enable them to produce accommodation...
- Don't stop me now: preparing for an ageing population This report, published by the Audit Commission looks at the challenges and opportunities facing England as its population gets older. The report emphasises that councils have a local area leadership...
- Building our Futures: meeting the housing needs of an ageing population The aim of this report is to assist people involved in planning for housing and related services to meet the needs of an ageing population over the next 25 years. The information in the main body of...
- Future Housing for Older People This report describes research into the views of older people about the factors that would make them move from their existing homes. Two cohorts were interviewed, people over 70 years old and people...
- Anticipating future accommodation needs - developing a methodology This Case study No31 describes an innovative approach to obtaining the views of people approaching retirement about their future housing and accommodation needs, and what they might expect / would like...
- Local Area Agreements: maximising the potential for housing for older people This Housing LIN Briefing No14 is designed to promote the inclusion of older peoples housing needs within Local Area Agreements. It sets out the policy background and goes on to summarise several case...
- Older People's Housing and Under-occupancy This report examines the concept of under-occupancy and the extent to which it contributes to overcrowding and housing shortages. It concludes that older people represent a minority of those under-occupying...
- Whose Market? Understanding the demand for Extra Care Housing: A Strategic Approach A Housing LIN Report with findings from a recent survey on the extent to which local authorities are taking a strategic approach to commissioning extra care housing for older people. The report draws...
