Design and Cost Considerations in Extra Care Housing

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.

One of the core messages is that Extra Care environments cannot simply be built using a 'one-size fits all' approach. Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, fire safety and fire protection following Grenfell, and residents' wider health and social care determinants all need to be learned quickly, to safeguard public confidence in extra care housing.