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Are housing providers ready for the digital switchover challenge? This was the question at the heart of the Digital Technology Housing Strategy Barometer from Housing LIN and Appello, with findings revealed in our two-part Digital Readiness Report 2026.

We’re delighted to launch our Spring/Summer HAPPI Hour webinar series, an engaging programme designed to connect professionals across housing, health and social care.

In this new Housing HLIN guest blog, Rebecca Brown, North London Housing Graduate, Regional Operations Team, Clarion Housing, reflects on the Housing LIN Future Leaders Programme and how it broadened her perspective beyond her own housing association, exposing her to diverse challenges and approaches across the sector.

In today's newsletter, we share a Housing LIN Conference recap; London Assembly Housing Committee report on housing allocations in London boroughs; two new Housing LIN guest blogs by Mark Slater on planning changes and Savannah Fishel on intergenerational community bonds; PPP Manchester Neighbourhood Health roundtable; and our Spring Summer HAPPI Hour early bird registration.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Savannah Fishel, Intergenerational & Communal Housing Researcher, explores how everyday 'neighbourisms' can strengthen intergenerational and community bonds.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Barbara Douglas, Retired Executive Officer, Elders Council of Newcastle, explores the importance of truly listening to older people when shaping housing choices for later life.

The government has launched the National Housing Bank – a subsidiary of Homes England in partnership with Aviva – as part of “a once-in-a-generation investment offer to accelerate delivery of new homes and mixed-use schemes” whilst also enabling the regeneration of towns and cities across England. 

Hot on the heels of the publication of the NHS Neighbourhood Health Framework, our CEO, Jeremy Porteus, was delighted to join a roundtable in Manchester last week with national and regional health and social care leaders on neighbourhood health, organised by Public Policy Projects.

A report by the London Assembly Housing Committee investigates the practice of social housing allocations in London boroughs. It includes how disabled people are disadvantaged in accessing affordable, accessible social housing in the capital.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Mark Slater, Managing Director at WWA, shares insights on proposed planning policy changes, focusing on new site thresholds and stronger tenure expectations.