New guest blog for Supported Housing Week argues for long-term specialist homes, not long-stay hospitals

In this guest blog for Supported Housing Week, Penelope Green, Head of Evaluation and Influencing at Look Ahead and Programme Director at the Learning Disability and Autism Housing Coalition, explains why specialist supported housing is so hard to fund and develop. She highlights how high build costs and the Rent Standard’s “no public subsidy” condition leave providers struggling to deliver homes.

Penelope shows the human cost of this market failure, with people with a learning disability and autistic people spending years in hospital, and calls for specialist housing to be treated as an essential part of the solution.