Housing and physical disability
These pages provide a selection of good practice resources and research on housing for people with physical disabilities and measures to improve accessibility in the built environment and service design.
The Housing LIN has an excellent track record working with housing providers, health and adult social care commissioners of housing that supports independent living for people with a physical disability. For bespoke advice to help your organisation draw on the lessons highlighted on these pages and/or to talk through how the Housing LIN can support with your operational and/or strategical plans, please contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our consultancy pages.
Key resources
External Review of Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) and Other Adaptations
Commissioned by the Department of Health this independent review of Disabled Facilities Grants contains 45 recommendations for government in order to improve and overhaul the delivery of DFGs and home adaptations.
In the loop? Ten things managers of Extra Care Housing should know about hearing loops
This Housing LIN Viewpoint looks at hearing loops, and what staff at Extra Care Housing schemes need to know about them.
A Progressive Approach to Accessible Housing
This Housing LIN Viewpoint, written by Julia Park, Levitt Bernstein Architects, proposes a way of accommodating accessible housing within a more progressive approach to building design and related standards that can meet a diverse range of housing needs.
Going for broke with personalisation - new approaches to housing with support for people with disabilities
This Housing LIN Case Study gives a high level view at the introduction of a housing brokerage service in Essex and identifies the key phases and activities that took place.
Turning the corner: managing the use of mobility vehicles from a housing perspective
This Housing LIN Case Study highlights the key issues and findings from a research project commissioned by First Wessex, a Hampshire-based housing association, to research and develop design and management options for older and disabled people to use or continue to use Mobility Vehicles.
Daylighting in Older People's Housing
This guide by Thomas Pocklington Trust and the University of Manchester, highlights the power of design for daylighting to improve the lives of people with sight loss.
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