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Held yesterday at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre, we were delighted to attend Housing 21’s annual conference, which brought together leading voices across housing, health, and ageing to explore how we can create healthier homes and more equitable communities for older people.

Housing LIN is proud to support Get Online Week (20–26 October 2025), the UK’s largest digital inclusion campaign, led by the Good Things Foundation. The initiative helps people discover the benefits of being online and builds confidence in using digital tools, supporting those who are at risk of being left behind.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Kate Sheehan, Occupational Therapist and Fellow at the University of Worcester, explores the social model of disability and the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)

We are delighted to host our annual Housing LIN Cymru Symposium, bringing together members of our Steering Group and other experts to showcase innovative services, schemes, and projects that promote age-friendly communities across Wales. 

In today's Housing LIN newsletter, we share award-winning housing projects, age-friendly community insights, upcoming HAPPI Hour webinars, new research on housing inequalities, expert blogs, and resources shaping the future of housing, health, and ageing.

We’re thrilled to announce our joint win with Essex County Council at the 2025 Essex Housing Awards, receiving the Specialist Housing Award for the Essex Supported and Specialist Housing and Accommodation Need Assessment.

The 2025 Stirling Prize, RIBA’s prestigious award for excellence in architecture, has been won by Witherford Watson Mann Architects at a ceremony last night for their new, HAPPI-inspired, contemporary almshouse design for United St Saviour’s Charity’s, Appleby Blue, in Bermondsey. This is a tremendous achievement and a great boost for retirement living.

With an increasing priority on neighbourhood health, 3 New Towns announced for the region and Dorset the latest to receive age-friendly community status, our South West Leadership Set met online this afternoon to focus on the paths for creating healthier places for an ageing population in the region. 

We are pleased to share our latest contribution to our Disability Discrimination Act series, ahead of its 30th anniversary, by Sir David Pearson, Independent Chair and Advisor.

A new report from the Centre for Ageing Better, delivered by the Race Equality Foundation, highlights the urgent need to address poor-quality housing faced by older people from racially minoritised communities.