HLINks Weekly: 8 September 2025

Welcome back to HLINks!

We hope you had a restorative summer. After a short break, we’re back with a special summer catch-up edition of the Housing LIN newsletter, featuring the latest news, resources, policy updates, and thought leadership across housing, health, and social care.

This edition highlights updates you may have missed and celebrates inclusive housing developments. We’re also proud to support ten years of accessible housing standards with Habinteg’s Accessible Homes Week (AHW), calling for stronger commitments in the new national Housing Strategy. Join us as we explore accessible and adaptable homes, and much more, when our new HAPPI Hour webinar series launches on Tuesday, 30th September.

Inside this issue: Discover this year’s Housing Design Awards HAPPI winner, Arcadis’ supported housing in Bath; hear how Bield becomes the first Scottish sponsor of Housing LIN; explore the APPG Inquiry on intergenerational communities; meet Two Rivers Housing, our newest South West sponsor; and catch up on key insights from reports, blogs, and events, from accessibility challenges to leadership in age-friendly housing. Plus, we reflect on the legacies of the Disability Discrimination Act with a series of guest blogs and remember the contributions of the late Professor Anthea Tinker CBE.

From policy updates and new research to events and webinars, this issue is packed with insights to help you re-engage as we head into an action-packed autumn. As always, HLINks is your platform. Share your news, projects, and ideas with us so we can spotlight the work shaping better housing, health, and social care.

Thank you for joining us each week and being part of our community.

The Housing LIN Team