HLINks Weekly: 7 September 2026
Welcome back to HLINks! We hope you had a wonderful summer, and that you're ready to dive into what promises to be a packed autumn and winter schedule here at the Housing LIN.
Topping today's newsletter is the recent launch of our Housing LIN 2025-26 Year in Review, reflecting on twelve months of network growth, new publications, policy influence and consultancy work that has helped shape better housing options for older and disabled people across the UK.
We're also pleased to share that our new season of HAPPI Hour webinars kicks off on the 22 September, with registration now open for most sessions - the full lineup will follow very soon, so watch this space.
Meanwhile, lots has happened while we've been on hiatus, including:
- Three new Housing LIN Viewpoints: a conversation on dementia and housing, senior cohousing versus intergenerational living, and a typology-based approach to specialist housing forecasting
- Two new Inspirational Achievements: PRP's work on the Moya Cole Hospice, and Places for People's Lavender View extra care scheme in Norfolk
- Three new guest blogs: partnership in the analogue-to-digital transition, the launch of the Home Adaptations Advice Network, and what the revised NPPF means for specialist and older persons' housing
- Government published its long-awaited revised National Planning Policy Framework
- NHF published a literature review on the funding of supported housing
- A call for older people's voices in North Manchester to be heard as major regeneration plans take shape
- Everon launched new Digital Evaluation Packages to help providers trial connected care technology ahead of the 2027 analogue-to-digital switchover
Read on for all this, and lots more that caught our interest over the summer in this bumper issue!