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This week’s HLINks is now out. With COVID-19 in mind, an essential read to keep up-to-date on housing and care matters.

This new report launched today and co-produced with the Housing LIN, aims to demonstrate that with careful consideration and the right tools, including useful new cost modelling, Extra Care will remain a viable and sustainable housing with care choice for residents, commissioners and funders, operators and developers.

This Housing LIN's latest guest blog gives personal insight into the newly formed Homeless Mental Health Team (HMHT) at the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.

In this new Housing LIN blog, Elisa Pozo Menéndez, an architect and urban designer specializing in Sustainable Cities and Healthy Ageing in Spain, writes about her experience Covid-19 in Madrid. In particular, she describes the importance of the way informal networks were established to provide community support, the resultant connectivity and neighbourliness offered to combat loneliness and isolation, and how the links made are now being sustained to generate a new self-managed mutual support.

This week’s HLINks is now out. With COVID-19 in mind, an essential read to keep up-to-date on housing and care matters.

Chris Smith, executive director of business growth, Thirteen reflects on the impact of COVID-19 within the housing association’s sheltered and extra care housing schemes.

Appello, in partnership with the Housing LIN, are calling on your support to help identify changes in perceptions on technology and identify best practices for the sector moving forward. Please help us by completing our short survey by Thursday, 16th July.

The Housing and Dementia Research Consortium (HDRC) has published a summary report of their walking with purpose study.

This new book by former NHS supremo, Lord Nigel Crisp, is all about creating health in the home, the workplace, the school, the community and wider society. Creating the conditions for people to be healthy and helping them to be so. With input by the Housing LIN’s Jeremy Porteus, it tells the stories of some of the country's leading health creators in businesses, towns and communities, including a chapter on design and the environment.

This report by the County Councils Network an ARCO argues that councils and providers should be given the tools by government to incentivise and accelerate these developments, including the introduction of a new planning classification called ‘C2R’. It points out that this would incentivise more development of retirement communities.