🏡 Senior cohousing or intergenerational living — how do they compare?
In this new #HLINViewpoint, Dr Kirsten Stevens-Wood weighs up both models, from tackling loneliness to building community across generations.
🔑 Read more: www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

Loneliness is a health crisis & social connection is infrastructure.

In a new #HLINViewpoint, Churchill Fellow Savannah Fishel explores how “neighbourisms” (small, everyday acts of care in intergenerational housing) can be a powerful part of the solution.

🔗 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

🚨New #HLINViewpoint!

Former planner Roger Hawkins reflects on the 1.5M homes target by 2029.

Planning, design & skilled labour are key—but short-term fixes won’t work.

Read 👉 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

#HousingCrisis #Planning #SkillsGap

🚨Today’s #HLINks newsletter:

• Reflect on Loneliness Week & tackling isolation
• Celebrate Carers Week & support for carers
• Gov’t £39bn social housing investment update
• Upcoming webinars & leadership opportunities
• New #HLINViewpoint!

Read on: www.housinglin.org.uk/nl/?nid=3130

🏡New #HLINViewpoint & #HLINCaseStudy on Appleby Blue shows how design, support & community enhance older people’s wellbeing & independence.

Join author Alison Benzimra (United St Saviour's Charity) in tomorrow’s #HAPPIHour “Almshouses Reimagined” to learn more: www.housinglin.org.uk/News/New-ins...

🆕New Viewpoint!

John Payne (Matters Grey) calls for bold action on long-term care funding.

From tapping housing wealth to inheritance tax reform—practical ideas exist. What’s missing? Political courage.

Read here👇
www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/... #HLINViewpoint

In this #HLINViewpoint, Prof Joost van Hoof & Dr Hannah Marston warn that ignoring financial realities risks excluding older people from urban life.

They urge evidence-based tools & policies that keep affordability central to age-friendly planning.

🔗 Read at www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

Final #HLINks of 2025!✨

💠 #HLINViewpoint with WWA
💠 2024–25 Year in Review
💠 23 #HAPPIHour recordings
💠 Save-the-date for Housing LIN Conference 2026
💠 New gov consultations
💠 #HLINblogs on later living & lots more!

www.housinglin.org.uk/nl/?nid=3195
Thanks for an amazing 2025. Happy holidays!🎉

🏘️ New #HLINViewpoint!

Dr Ngozi Fakeye & Sukh Singh (Wokingham BC) explore how a typology-based approach can give housing and social care a shared language for planning specialist accommodation.

Read more: www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

#HLINViewpoint: C2 or C3? Why this planning grey area still confuses everyone & why it matters for housing & affordability

Ifti Maniar (WWA Studios) explores how inconsistent C2/C3 rules are holding back specialist housing for older people in England/Wales.

🔗 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

Hundreds of thousands of new homes have been built since 2022, and most are still inaccessible. Why?

In a new Housing LIN Viewpoint, Joan Rutherford calls out the excuses blocking #M42 regs: cost? minor. impact? massive.

Read here🔗 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/... #HLINViewpoint

🏡 “Housing is central to dementia care, yet often overlooked.” In this #HLINViewpoint, Ali Rogan & Vanessa Pritchard-Wilkes discuss:
🔑 Duty to adjust under Equality Act
🎓 Training gaps
💡 Design that helps everyone
📱 Tech built with people, not for them

Read at: www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...

In this week's #HLINks:

💠 Final week of our AI survey
💠 #TAPPIHour webinar tomorrow
💠 #HLINViewpoint on health + housing
💠 2 x HLINblogs on senior cohousing + conference key messages
💠 Launch of new Home Adaptations in Social Housing Charter

+ more at:
www.housinglin.org.uk/nl/?nid=3250

New #HLINViewpoint!

Mark Hindle, Managing Director at Tunstall Healthcare, makes the case for closing the gap between health and housing, to create a more sustainable NHS and improve outcomes for individuals.

Read Mark's full viewpoint here: www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...