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Published to coincide with HAPPI Awareness Week 2024, this blog written by Madeleine Hebert, Senior Housing Specialist at Happy Cities, highlights the importance of social connections in addressing societal challenges such as housing affordability, extreme weather, and ageing populations.

A new report published today, Older People’s Housing Preferences, offers critical and comprehensive evidence about the housing circumstances, aspirations and preferences of older adults in the UK. Produced by the Housing LIN in partnership with Ipsos, with funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

This week's newsletter covers HAPPI Awareness Week 2024, a new webinar on dementia and housing, an update from the South West Leadership Set, a report by East of England LGA on health homes, and lots more!

East of England LGA have worked with partners to produce a self-improvement tool for Integrated Care Systems, to help enhance collaboration between housing and health sectors to improve health outcomes.

Abdul A Ravat, Chair of the National Housing Federation’s Older Person’s Housing Group, a member of the Housing and Ageing Alliance, and Lead on Ageing Well for BME National, comments in an important article on how last month's Taskforce report drew attention to the issue of an increasingly ageing and diverse population.

At yesterday's Housing LIN SW Leadership Set meeting, we were delighted to be joined by guest speakers from the University of Exeter’s Health and Social Care Delivery Research to share preliminary findings on the evaluation of extra care housing as well as Exeter’s Innovation Regional Engagement Team on the research for the Devon Housing Commission. 

This week's newsletter covers our upcoming HAPPI Hour webinar on National Planning Policy Framework reform, the Older People's Housing Taskforce's report, an update from the Housing LIN Future Leaders Programme and lots more!

This HAPPI Awareness Week, join us, in partnership with Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and West Waddy Archadia Architects, for an exclusive look at the National Planning Policy Framework reform and the landscape for delivering specialist housing within the government's goal of 1.5 million new homes over the next 5 years.

The Open University/Bangla Housing Association team and members from the Bangladeshi Research Advisory Group (BRAG) met today with the project’s core Professional Advisory Group (PAG) to present the initial preliminary analysis from the interviews with the Bangladeshi ‘probin’ community on the Dunhill Medical Trust funded ‘Amar Bari, Amar Jibon’ research.

Mario Ambrosi, Chair of the Housing and Ageing Alliance is pleased to share an initial response on the Older People’s Housing Taskforce report published today.