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Housing and physical disability
Updated on 02/02/2012
People who develop physical disabilities in adult life or who have been born with them may need support to enable them to live independently. The resources listed below include national policy that is relevant to housing and related support for this group of people as well as examples of how services can be provided to them.
- A Progressive Approach to Accessible Housing This new Housing LIN Viewpoint no 22 is by a co-author of the influential HAPPI report. Written by Julia Park, Levitt Bernstein Architects, she proposes a way of accommodating accessible housing within...
- EVOLVE for Vision - Building Evaluation Tool Developed by the University of Sheffield through a research project funded by Thomas Pocklington Trust, EVOLVE for vision is designed to evaluate the suitability of an individual living unit for an...
- Housing for People with Sight Loss: A practical guide to improving existing homes This publication is based on 'Housing for People with Sight Loss: a Thomas Pocklington Trust Design Guide.' This Good Practice Guide is a tool to improve the homes of people with sight loss. It aims...
- Supporting Independence and Integration for Disabled People: Foundations for Living Project, the Papworth Trust, Huntingdon This Housing LIN Case Study No 45 describes an innovative scheme that integrates affordable, accessible homes with private flats, as well as a range of key mainstream services for disabled people across...
- Housing for People with Sight Loss This Housing LIN Factsheet No 26 summarises research about the needs and interests of people with sight loss and contains case studies of services and vignettes of individual lives. It is aimed at those...
- Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People This Government report sets an ambitious vision for improving the life chances of disabled people in four key areas. Firstly by helping disabled people to achieve independent living, secondly by improving...
- Independent living Strategy - delivering on choice & control for disabled people This Housing LIN Briefing No23 summarises the Independent Living Strategy, published by the government setting out policy commitments, identifying what difference these policies are intended to make,...
- Briefing on Disabled Persons (independent living) Bill Housing LIN Briefing No5 on the bill that sets out the principles to underpin the delivery of local authority and NHS services and places a duty on each to work with partner agencies to promote independent...
- Extra care housing is not just for OP - supporting people with physical disabilities Housing LIN Viewpoint No 5 - This article, first published in Community Care 2-8 February 2006, describes an innovative large supported housing scheme in Bradford for severely disabled adults under pension...
- Long Term Conditions and the Wider Policy Context Housing LIN Briefing No4 - This briefing paper sets out the policy direction for the management of long term conditions; what this means for service commissioners and providers of housing and housing...
- Shared Ownership for people with disabilities This Housing LIN Case Study No12 provides details about a specialist shared ownership scheme managed by Notting Hill Home Ownership for people with disabilities. It describes how the scheme works, provides...
