Ahead of our Housing LIN Summit – Reaching for the Top, and first ever HAPPI Awareness Week next week, we are delighted to publish this new Housing LIN guest blog by Lord Best, Co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People.
In this blog, Lord Best reflects on ten years since the publication of the first HAPPI report. After five significant reports, annual HAPPI Design Awards, this first ever HAPPI Awareness Week next week, and hard work from our APPG on Housing and Care for Older People, Lord Best asks: Are we winning? Is there now a widespread acceptance of the value to older citizens, younger families, and to the NHS and social care providers, of creating tens of thousands of purpose-built age-friendly new homes?