HLINks Weekly: Housing, Health, and Social Care Latest News
HLINks Weekly: Housing, Health, and Social Care Latest News
8 June 2026
Before we dive into this week’s newsletter, we would like to invite you to tomorrow’s HAPPI Hour webinar! In anticipation of next week’s Loneliness Awareness Week, we are hosting the first SHAPE Exchange webinar, Designing Homes and Communities that Reduce Isolation and Build Connection, on Tuesday, 9 June, from 4:00pm to 5:00pm.
Join us to hear leading experts discuss how housing, technology, home adaptations and age-friendly communities can support wellbeing, independence and healthy ageing, while helping to reduce loneliness and strengthen social connections.
Chaired by the Vivensa Foundation, the session will bring together speakers from Age Irrelevance, Manchester School of Architecture, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Bield.
Register now to secure your place.
Other housing, health and care sector stories included in today's newsletter:
- Housing LIN Southwest Leadership Set hosts annual away day in St Ives
- Coordinated by the Scottish Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, a new report on the digital blueprint for a smart home of the future
- Published by the Canadian Standards Association Public Policy Centre, a new report on how multigenerational households can support ageing in place
- Webinar recording now available - Pride in Place: Celebrating inclusive housing & LGBTQ+ community initiatives
- A new Housing LIN guest blog on Changing perceptions and progress over perfection by the National Care Forum's Honor Westlake
And lots more of what else caught our interest!
Thank you for joining us each week and being part of our learning community.
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Best wishes, The Housing LIN Team |
News Highlights
Housing LIN Southwest Leadership Set hosts annual awayday in St Ives
Housing LIN’s South West Leadership Set met for its annual awayday in St Ives, Cornwall, with thanks to Poynton Bradbury Architects for hosting the event at their offices.
The day featured presentations from Cornwall Council on its plans for extra care housing, and from Bristol City Council on how it is meeting the requirements of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act.
Resource Roundup
Envision: the digital blueprint for a smart home of the future
Coordinated by the Scottish Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, this practical blueprint and guidance for delivering the next generation of homes that are affordable to run, aligned with net zero, and designed to support the health and wellbeing of their residents.
Under One Roof: How Multigenerational Households Can Support Aging in Place
This new Canadian Standards Association Public Policy Centre report explores how multigenerational housing can support ageing in place, strengthen caregiving networks, and reshape housing policy in Canada.
Recording now available - Pride in Place: Celebrating inclusive housing & LGBTQ+ community initiatives
For Pride Month 2026, we brought together leading voices from law, academia and the arts to explore what safe, affirming housing means for LGBTQ+ communities today.
Chaired by Charlotte Cook (Winckworth Sherwood), this HAPPI Hour webinar featured discussions on making safe housing choices, alongside a theatre-based exploration of home with LGBTQ+ older adults, highlighting lived experience, research and creative practice.
Expert Insights
Changing perceptions and progress over perfection
In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Honor Westlake, Policy, Research and Projects Officer at the National Care Forum, reflects on her experience of the Future Leaders Programme and how it reshaped her understanding of leadership.
Drawing on an unconventional journey into the social care and housing sector, she explains how hearing from leaders with diverse backgrounds reinforced the value of broad experience.
What else caught our interest...
- Almshouse Association exhibition story: More Than Almsmen: Brotherhood and Belonging at the Lord Leycester Hospital
- BBC Radio: Would you like to grow older in a community of other women?
- Centre for Ageing Better study: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s Age-friendly Journey
- Exeter Today article: Plans revealed to rescue derelict Exeter landmark as hub of new over-55s community
- Good Good Good article: First in the nation 'dementia village' breaks ground
- HM Government planning appeal statement: Decision for appeal
- Housing Digital news item: Green light for Eccles social rent homes for older people
- Innovation Unit project: Ensuring great everyday support across Greater Manchester
- National Academy for Social Prescribing report: Social prescribing delivers £9 wellbeing benefit for each £1 invested, major study suggests
- Regulator of Social Housing evaluation announcement: Regulator of Social Housing to evaluate the impact of consumer regulation
- Strand Books purchase from US: Design with Heart: Age-Friendly Design in Practice
- The Telegraph article: ‘We get on like a house on fire’: Meet the home-sharing retirees
Dates for your diary
HAPPI Hour webinars
- SHAPE Exchange: Designing homes and communities that reduce isolation and build connection on 9th June, 4pm - 5pm
- Showcasing community-led housing projects – designing with community in mind on 30th June, 4pm - 5pm
- Technology-enabled, co-designed housing for better later living on 7th July, 4pm - 5pm
- Housing LIN Scotland – A manifesto for older people’s housing on 14th July, 4pm - 5pm
- NEW: Building Health into Homes: how occupational therapy can unlock the connection between housing and health on 21st July, 4pm - 5pm
- NEW: Creating Safe and Supportive Housing Environments on 28th July, 4pm - 5pm
While free to attend for Housing LIN members, spaces are limited. Reserve your place today and join us for inspiring conversations, fresh insights and engaging ideas.
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