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Speaking at Housing 21’s annual conference, the Housing LIN's Lois Beech argued that intergenerational communities should be built into standard placemaking, not treated as a specialist extra. Her call, reported by Inside Housing, came as speakers explored how better rightsizing options and more choice in later living could help an ageing population.

Written for Supported Housing Week, this guest blog by Penelope Green, Programme Director at the Learning Disability and Autism Housing Coalition, makes the case for tackling the funding barriers that keep specialist supported housing out of reach.

As part of Supported Housing Week, Sir David Pearson, Independent Chair of the Government’s Supported Housing Advisory Panel, shares the Panel’s priorities for improving the quality and supply of supported housing in England, and what the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023 means in practice.

In this week’s HLINks, we invite you to the Dementia across the four nations webinar, kick off Supported Housing Week, report on the SHAPE Advisory Group Away Day ahead of next week's Challenge Fund launch, and share new research from Habinteg and Independent Age.

Congratulations to a trio of Housing LIN sponsors who received awards for best in their class at this year’s HealthInvestor Seniors Housing Awards, including Anchor, PRP architects and WWA architects.

An Independent Age briefing exposes the human cost of freezing Local Housing Allowance rates since April 2024. While market rents have soared, nearly seven in ten pension-age renters receiving Housing Benefit face a shortfall between their rent and the support they receive, forcing them to cut back on essentials like heating and food, leaving them stuck in unsafe or deteriorating conditions, and fearing the prospect of homelessness.

The government is seeking views on the technical detail of the supported housing licensing draft regulations by 10 December 2026.

SHAPE Advisory Group members met in Birmingham on 12–13 October for their first in-person Away Day, reflecting on progress, shaping priorities and turning evidence into action. Discussions also looked ahead to the SHAPE Challenge Fund, which launches at a special HAPPI Hour webinar on Tuesday 27 October.

For Accessible Homes Week, a new Habinteg survey has found that one in five UK adults report that they or a family member experienced outcomes such as a delayed hospital discharge or a move into residential care, because a home could not meet their accessibility needs.

We are pleased to share this new Housing LIN Viewpoint (No. 121), in which Dominic Hailey of Collado Collins Architects speaks with MTVH’s Claire Wise about demystifying supported housing, removing stigma from the language we use, and unlocking small-scale development to boost supply.