New Housing LIN Viewpoint calls for affordability to be put at the heart of age-friendly cities and communities

In this Housing LIN Viewpoint (no 113), Professor Joost van Hoof, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, and Dr Hannah R Marston, a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University, focus on affordability and its relationship with age-friendly cities and communities, covered in further detail in Who Doesn’t Think About Financial Security When Designing Urban Environments for Older People?, the chapter in a new book on Society and Technology.

The authors argue that without addressing affordability, urban environments risk excluding older people. Read on as they call for rigorous, evidence-based tools and policies that centre financial realities in age-friendly planning.

Dr Hannah R Marston will be speaking at our HAPPI Hour Webinar 'Towards age-friendly futures: Local practice and perspectives' on Tuesday 21/10/2025 from 4:00pm till 5:00pm. Book your free place now.