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Chaired by Lord Best, the opening session of the new, year-long All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry on Creating Intergenerational Communities took place on Tuesday, 25 March in Westminster.

This week's newsletter celebrates this month's successful Housing LIN Conference, calls out for your best practices for agefriendly homes and connected communities, includes a new Housing LIN guest blog by Susan Kay (Chief Executive of the Dunhill Medical Trust) on the challenges of creating homes and communities that cater to an ageing population, and lots more!

Building on the success of this year's Housing LIN Annual Conferences, we invite you to share your best practice examples on Age-Friendly Homes and Connected Communities with us. Whether it's an insightful blog, a new groundbreaking report, or an interesting case study, we're eager to hear about the innovative work you're doing! 

This blog by Susan Kay, Chief Executive at the Dunhill Medical Trust, was published to coincide with Housing LIN’s Annual Conference 2025. It explores the challenges of creating homes and communities that support an ageing population.

This blog by Gurjeet Nagra, Design Manager at Inspired Villages, explores the concept of the "squiggly career," emphasising that career paths are no longer predictable or linear.

This blog explores the Rachel Butterworth and Albert Sinfield's (Inspired Villages) experience with the Housing LIN Future Leaders Programme, where they were challenged to step outside their Integrated Retirement Community (IRC) roles and delve into the broader housing sector.

This week's HLINks newsletter shares a #HLINConf25 preview, several new Housing LIN guest blogs from this year's Future Leader's Programme, an update from the Housing and Ageing Alliance; House of Lords Built Environment Committee's new Inquiry into new towns, and lots more!

This blog by Stephanie Whitehead, Policy & Research Officer at Cymorth Cymru, explores her journey in the housing and policy sectors, reflecting on their early doubts and challenges in envisioning a leadership role.

This blog by Adam Gravely, Policy Officer at the National Housing Federation, explores the profound impact of purpose on leadership, particularly through the Housing LIN Future Leaders Programme.

The Housing LIN is proud to be a signatory to a new campaign initiated by the National Housing Federation to bolster funding for supported housing in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.