This week’s HLINks: 20 – 24 June 2022
Welcome back to #Jeremytalks (opens new window) and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.
I am sad to report that Baroness Sally Greengross has died. Sally was a passionate advocate on older people's issues and for many years a champion of age-friendly housing. Over the decades, she contributed to many key policy developments - from Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods to HAPPI - and in March this year had contributed in the House of Lords debate on housing for older people. We will miss her considerably.
This week, we published three new Housing LIN guest blogs. The first blog explores the ongoing partnership between Places for People Living Plus, Lovell Later Living and the Morgan Sindall Group. The second blog is by David Burgher, Director and Founder of VR-EP, who reveals how and why VR-EP created an immersive VR experience as a tool to help architects understand how to design dementia friendly spaces. And the third, a joint blog by Ed Warner, Founder and CEO at Motionspot and Paula Broadbent, Managing Director at Lovell Later Living on designing for the future, now!
We also celebrated Learning Disability Week, an annual campaign hosted by Mencap which raises awareness on what it's like to live with a learning disability. We drew attention to a range of resources and tools hosted on the ‘Housing and Learning Disability: Transforming care and support’ webpages, supported by Golden Lane Housing.
And finally, we explored multi-generational housing and planning practice and policy in this week’s HAPPI Hour, ‘Last homes not first homes: Housing and planning for an ageing population’, co-chaired by Winckwood Sherwood and delivered by an excellent range of speakers. Missed it? The recording and presentation slides are now available here.
In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- CaCHE: How to Combine action on housing retrofit with tackling health inequalities (and other injustices)
- Dimensions: Broken system, broken lives. 11 policies to limit ATU admissions and accelerate discharges (opens new window)
- Foundations: The Social Value of aids and adaptations provided by Home Improvement Agencies (opens new window)
- NHS Confederation: Healthy-foundations_integrating-housing-as-part-of-mental-health-pathway (opens new window)
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Jeremy Porteus
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.