New Housing LIN Viewpoint explores how plain language and simple design could unlock supported housing development

In this Housing LIN Viewpoint (No. 121), Dominic Hailey, Director at Collado Collins Architects, talks with Claire Wise, Director of Support at MTVH, about why new supported housing so often stalls. She argues that complex terminology and stigmatising labels deter developers, particularly smaller ones, when the principles of good supported housing are no different from those of any other home.

Claire sets out a flexible, inclusive model of small clusters of homes on infill and backland sites, and describes MTVH’s work on a pan-London Design Guide for Supported Housing, intended to help stimulate new capital investment.