The Housing and Ageing Alliance

What are its Aims?

1. To raise the profile of the housing and housing related care and support needs and aspirations of people in later life 

2. To be a sounding board for members and other policy makers, discussing ideas, policies and practice to learn and share so as to better meet older people’s needs and aspirations

3. To make representations to Government, policy makers and decision-making bodies concerning the above individually and collectively as the Alliance.

View the Alliance’s full Terms of Reference which sets out its’ purpose, core values and principles, aims and objectives, and working arrangements.

Who are the Members?

Membership reflects a range of housing interests including older people who are active in housing related networks, national organisations from the statutory, voluntary and private sectors which are involved in the planning, development and delivery of housing and related services, academic interests and those involved in policy development and representation on various housing related advisory bodies.

The group has no funding - its key resource is the expertise and commitment of those involved.

• Current membership list is available here

Contact

Email: info@housinglin.org.uk

H&AA Resources

• Creating Homes We Want to Grow Old In: A 15-Point Plan from the Housing and Ageing Alliance

  The HAA's manifesto calls for a national older people’s housing strategy, strengthened information and advice, more support for home adaptation and strengthened planning guidance to increase the supply of older people’s housing.

• Housing and Ageing Alliance Chair responds to the Older People’s Housing Taskforce report

  Mario Ambrosi, Director of Communications and Marketing at Anchor, is pleased to share an initial response, as Housing and Ageing Alliance Chair, on the Older People’s Housing Taskforce report.

H&AA Members Blogs

• Five Things We Learnt from the Older People’s Housing Report

  Abdul A Ravat, Chair of the National Housing Federation’s Older Person’s Housing Group, a member of the Housing and Ageing Alliance, and Lead on Ageing Well for BME National, comments in an important article on how last month's Taskforce report drew attention to the issue of an increasingly ageing and diverse population.

• Building for the future with Abdul Ravat: “we need a long-term housing plan”

  Abdul A Ravat, Head of Development & Relationships, Abbeyfield Living Society & Chair of the National Housing Federation’s (NHF) older persons housing group

• Remember when the first Star Wars film came out?

  Mario Ambrosi, Director of Communications and Marketing at Anchor and Chair for Housing and Ageing Alliance

• Might the fifteen-minute neighbourhood transform what we want from housing in old age? (opens new window)

  David Sinclair, Director, ILC-UK

• Keeping our communities connected (opens new window)

  Mario Ambrosi, Director of Communications and Marketing, Anchor

• Homes fit for purpose for an ageing population (opens new window)

  Sarah Davis, Senior Policy Officer, the Chartered Institute of Housing

• Hard-wiring digitally connected care and independent living (opens new window)

  Jeremy Porteus, Chief Executive, the Housing Learning and Improvement Network

• Collaboration is the key to the future of home adaptations (opens new window)

  Lauren Walker, Professional Adviser, Royal College of Occupational Therapists

• Homes for healthy ageing – time to ‘level up’ (opens new window)

  Sue Adams, CEO, Care & Repair England