HLINks: New HLIN blogs, new resources, and news and events from the specialist housing sector.

Housing LIN Blogs

A design for later life – senior living and intergenerational communities

This Housing LIN guest blog is written for us by Nigel Saunders, director of Pozzoni Architecture.

The blog starts by focussing on the UK’s increasingly urbanised and ageing population, and the need for varied solutions for housing for older people, and then looks at Pozzoni’s new Manchester development Village 135, featuring a community hub and a variety of housing types designed to foster community interactions.

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Older persons’ cooperatives: an alternative example

Chris Handy, CEO of The Accord Group, has written a blog for the Housing LIN in which he argues that for older people housing co-operatives can be a way of using skills, maintaining independence, and creating a sense of community.

Using Breedon Gardens Housing Co-operative in Redditch as an example, Dr Handy concludes the blog with a list of some of the advantages of co-operative housing for older people, and a call for the government to allocate more funding for co-operative schemes.

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Future Leaders Network

Future Leaders update

The Housing LIN held the second session in its Future Leaders Network programme on 12 November 2019 in Bristol, hearing presentations from two inspiring leaders - thanks to generous sponsorship from Thirteen Group.

You can read our news item to find out more about Future Leaders Network has been doing, and you can find out more about the Future Leaders Network by clicking here.

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Housing, Community, and Ageing

• Inside Housing: We need to convince politicians to break down the barriers between housing, health and social care
• St Monica’s Trust: Intergenerational Learning in Practice: Together Old and Young
• Estates Gazette: Extra care goes extra mile for senior living
• ARCO: UK needs a world class system of housing with care for older people
• New York Times: At Colleges, What’s Old Is New: Retirees Living on Campus
• Housing 21: An alternative to residential care - how can Extra Care benefit your local authority? (YouTube video)

Design, Planning, and Technology

• Inside Housing: New group warns over accessible housing ‘ticking time bomb’

Health and Social Care

• Local Government Association: Refreshing the High Impact Change Model
  • The influential High Impact Change Model which identifies approaches and service models that can have the greatest impact on reducing delayed discharge, has been updated with contributions from a variety of organisations including the Housing LIN.
• Social Care Future: We need to tell a different story about social care
• Guinness Partnership: New campaign to support LGBT people living with dementia
• Financial Times: A consensus on personal care for the elderly is finally emerging (requires subscription)

Scottish News

• Hanover Scotland: Housing associations ‘an untapped resource’ in delivery of health and social care

Housing LIN Events

• South West Housing LIN Regional Meeting
• South East Housing LIN Regional Meeting

Events promoted by the Housing LIN

• Ageing Better Report Launch: How HA's can reduce social isolation and loneliness
• Home Renaissance Foundation – Happy Homes, Happy Society? Call for papers

Next Week

Next week, following his presentation at Property Week’s recent Retirement Living conference, we look forward to publishing a new guest blog by James Fenner of Silk Road, on marketing for retirees.

Also, look out for a new guide from South Yorkshire Housing Association on how housing can play a role in easing social isolation and loneliness.

 If you missed this: our Extra Care Housing Survey has been extended to the end of the year.

With Thanks

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.