Current Projects
This page gives a brief overview on a few of the externally funded projects that the Housing LIN is involved in. They include pioneering research projects with universities and the development of new tools and resources to inform policy and practice.
Developing Solutions for Temperature-Related Health Impacts in the UK (opens new window)
This UKRI/NIHR project, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Prof Shakoor Hajat) and with Oxford Brookes University, primarily focuses on the occurrence and mitigation of summertime overheating in extra-care settings across the UK. The Housing LIN is pleased to be on the Project Advisory Board.
The Benefits and Costs of Domiciliary Care study (opens new window)
This £1.6m collaborative research project, led by the
University of Kent’s PSSRU, seeks to 
assess the value for money social care services provide to people receiving care and their families. It will survey people receiving different types of domiciliary care and unpaid carers. They will work with people with lived experience of care services to ensure survey questions are fit for purpose. The research will explore which aspects of people’s lives social care services affect. Other important factors will include age, gender, ethnicity, source of care funding, geographical location, availability of unpaid care, housing suitability/safety, and provider characteristics. These will give a sound picture of the domiciliary care landscape.
Funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme, the 3-year project brings together a cast of 6 partners, including the Housing LIN – the sole housing representative. Other partners include researchers from King’s College London, social research specialists at Ipsos, analysts at Skills for Care as well as the Homecare Association. In addition, the project is supported by the Care Quality Commission and the NIHR Research Delivery Network.
With the Casey Commission on Adult Social Care recently announced, this project will have even more prominence. The Housing LIN is therefore delighted to provide housing input and both share knowledge and experience of at home care and support the project with dissemination of findings to the housing sector.
Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA)
The Housing LIN is excited to be a partner in this 5 year research exploring the impact of stigma on fuelling inequalities experienced by UK disabled adults in later life. Led by University of Stirling, the study ‘Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA)’, will investigate and identify how stigma related to age, disability, and where someone lives, creates additional barriers for older people living with sensory and mobility impairments.
Supported by a £2m Economic and Social Research Council grant, the five-year ISPA project will result in researchers working in collaboration with disabled adults to use their findings to develop guidance on the actions and modifications required in people’s homes and environments to allow this group to age well in their communities. Other ISPA project partners are: Horizon Housing Association, Stonewater Housing Association , Link Housing Group, Artlink Central, Springfield Properties plc, The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (Scotland ), Foundations, Public Health Scotland and Motionspot.
The Housing LIN will also play a key role in a newly formed ‘Inclusive Living Alliance’ – a UK wide network made up of organisations from housing, health, social care and the third sector – to road test this guidance and focus on long-term policy change.
ALSO IN THE PIPELINE
The Housing LIN Consultancy team are also involved in a range of projects with national, trade and professional bodies, local authorities, combined authorities, housing associations, charities and commercial partners. Where the funder grants permission, we will put our reports and other resources into the public domain so we can share the findings from our sector learning and improvement activities. Recent examples include:
- Phase One of the Ipsos/Housing LIN report on the Housing Preferences of Older People (December 2024)
- The evaluation report for Clarion Futures on their Warm Spaces programme (January 2025)
- The APPG on Housing and Care for Older People inquiry report on Creating Intergenerational Communities (March 2026)
- The Arup/Housing LIN Age-friendly Built Environment Quick Guides commissioned and published by the Centre for Ageing Better on age-friendly communities (March 2026)
- Following the Older People’s Housing Taskforce, and funded by Vivensa Foundation, developing a major 5-year UK programme to support leadership and innovation called SHAPE (Suitable Housing for an Ageing Population Evidence Exchange)
To view all the latest Housing LIN case studies, reports, blogs and viewpoints, best to visit our News webpage. And, if you would like further information on any of the above or would like to discuss other projects that you think will be of interest to the Housing LIN or benefit from our participation, email us at info@housinglin.org.uk