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Pride of Place Living took home The William Sutton Prize for Social Innovation for their proposal for a scheme that will provide multigenerational, lifelong and inclusive living for LGBTQ+ people in Leeds. The group's winning entry focussed on its plans to create a multi-generational, lifelong and inclusive LGBTQ+ affirmative community, particularly for people over 50. 

Brand-new guidance on delivering home adaptations in social housing, including how local authorities and housing associations can work better together is now out.

This new Housing LIN blog by Sarah Jones, Chief Financial Officer at Anchor reflects on the report they published last week which looks into the changing nature of family dynamics in the UK, peoples’ expectations of later life – particularly in terms of independence and care – and how retirement housing can help to tackle these challenges.

Launched during today’s Housing LIN’s HAPPI Hour, London housing and care provider Octavia and St Christopher’s Hospice share their co-designed, bespoke resource aid for care teams working in extra care housing, to promote a better quality of life for people towards and at the end of their life.

In this Housing LIN guest blog, Jenny Kartupelis MBE, author and Director of Faith in Society, reflects on her evidence about the nature of good practices that facilitate relational care and advocates the creation of intergenerational models as an approach that enables older people to contribute to their communities.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other stories that caught our interest.

This report by Anchor looks at the changing nature of communities and independence particularly in a post pandemic environment and represents a clear opportunity to ensure housing forms a major part of the solution to address issues faced by our ageing population and the wider society.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Sara Livadeas, Head of Operations and Engagement Programmes at Canadian operator Origin Active Living, provides their take on the UK later living market and plans for growth.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other stories that caught our interest.

Our most recent inspirational achievement is an innovative and resilient project, Cordage View. Only available to sponsors of the Housing LIN, the purpose of our Inspirational Achievement webpage is to share their achievements and inspire adaptive learning and improvement with our members.