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This Housing LIN Viewpoint by Ellis Pugh, Shakespeare Martineau, considers what the new consumer standards and inspection regime mean for registered providers in the specialist housing sector.

TAPPI uses a Champions' model for co-production, with 17 members from staff and tenants across the six locality testbeds. These Personal Stories are shared by the Champions and cover the positives and negatives of digital technology and how it affects their lives.

This Housing LIN Viewpoint (No 105), written by writer and co-founder of the Age Action Alliance, Tony Watts describes a “21st Century Almshouse for Bristol” that may offer a way forward for intergenerational housing.

This Housing LIN Viewpoint (no 104) looks at the impact of Covid-19 and captures the responses and experiences of how 18 community-led housing projects in England and Wales have coped during the pandemic.

This Housing LIN Viewpoint (No 103) describes the support given to housing managers at the sheltered and extra care schemes that use Legrand’s technology and measures taken to improve standards for grouped living systems so they could digitally adapt to the new world of social distancing and remote working under Covid-19.

This Viewpoint (no 102) by the University of Cambridge's Centre for Housing and Planning Research draws on their recent research, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, and suggests that there is a discrepancy in opinion about what telecare is for and the goals to be achieved, between telecare designers, suppliers, manufacturers, local authority commissioners, housing association managers, and the many others professionally engaged in rolling out telecare services.

This Housing LIN Viewpoint No 101 highlights how, during the Coronavirus pandemic, many social landlords have relied on monitoring and communication systems to keep vulnerable residents safe but also to enhance their quality of life as social isolation has become widespread.

Housing LIN Viewpoint no 45 - At a recent seminar about housing for older people, it was mentioned that the amount of specialist housing for older people was about 5% or less. This means that 95% of...

This is the final viewpoint of three developed from a Doctoral Research Study on the possibilities and practicalities of people with dementia living in extra care housing. It reviews how extra care housing operators can approach quality management to keep residents and tenants at the heart of their service within a complex regulatory environment.

This is the first of three viewpoints developed from a Doctoral Research Study on the possibilities and practicalities of people with dementia living in extra care housing.