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A new documentary launched exploring the connection between housing and health, featuring conversations with people with lived experience, community members, and experts working in policy, research and frontline services.

Today, on 3 December, we mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), established by the United Nations. The day provides a vital opportunity to raise awareness, celebrate the contributions of persons with disabilities, and reaffirm our commitment to promoting their rights, wellbeing and full inclusion in society. 

The new Motor Neurone Disease Association report shows that Disabled Facilities Grant delivery is a postcode lottery, impacted by unacceptably long wait times, unfair and inconsistent means testing, and variable approaches to the application of the means test and grant levels. 

The University of Kent is inviting homecare agencies and housing with care schemes across South East England, East Midlands, West Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber to take part in an important new research study: DomCare: The Benefits and Costs of Domiciliary Care.

In today's HLINks, we cover December’s HAPPI Hour webinars on supported housing and AI in care, a guest blog by Professor Julienne Meyer, Housing LIN Scotland updates, surveys, Casey Commission news, new sponsorship, opportunities to shape age-friendly environments, and lots more!

We were delighted to see Ian Copeman, Business Director at Housing LIN, speak at the National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) 2025 in a workshop titled “Partners in Care and Health – An ordinary home: improving housing choice for people with a learning disability.”

With December’s HAPPI Awareness Week (#HAW25) fast approaching, momentum is building across the sector, especially following the success of last year’s HAPPI-inspired design winner, United St Saviour’s Charity’s Appleby Blue, which has gone on to secure multiple RIBA honours this year, including the prestigious Stirling Prize.

This new Housing LIN guest blog, written by Professor Julienne Meyer CBE PhD, Taskforce chair, provides a one year on reflection on the progress of the Older People’s Housing Taskforce following its 2024 report.

Congratulations to all the specialist/supported schemes and an intergenerational living scheme that won a 2025 Inside Housing’ Development Award at last night’s gala ceremony in London.

Housing LIN is thrilled to announce Norscot as our new sponsor of Housing LIN Scotland, marking an exciting step forward in the commitment to advancing innovative housing and care solutions for older people across Scotland.