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This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including a Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas announcement, a new guest blog by Shakespeare Martineau's Louise Drew on retirement housing schemes, and launch of the SO-HAPPI report.

You and Yours' special on BBC Radio 4 highlighted Integrated Retirement Communities as a key part of the social care solution, and reported live from the ExtraCare Charitable Trust's Shenley Wood village in Milton Keynes. 

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Louise Drew, head of building communities and the research conducted by law firm Shakespeare Martineau, highlights the consequences of misconceptions about retirement housing schemes that are putting people off from leaving their larger properties and finding better suited places to live.

The Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas returns for a week-long virtual event of inspiring conversations on the week commencing Monday, 27 February 2023. With 2 free sessions each day, watch, listen and learn from leading figures from the housing, health, care and technology industries.

We are pleased to support the British Geriatrics Society's 'Protecting the rights of older people to health and social care' statement. 

Launched this morning in the House of Lords, the report – funded by Wates Family Enterprise Trust and produced by experts Care Research – finds increasing demand for children and young people’s crisis mental health services amidst challenges with existing services. 

This APPG Inquiry report highlights and evaluates the key issues concerning the development of the market for shared ownership for older people. Launched on 16 January at the House of Lords, it draws on evidence sessions and written submissions to the year-long Inquiry from shared owners, housing providers, housing organisations, academics, lenders, regulators, advisers and housing experts.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including our five top wishes for 2023, a Future Leaders Programme update, and two new guest blogs by Look Ahead's Anna Cameron and University College London's Dr Niamh Murtagh.

We were delighted to hold the final Future Leaders Programme session with our 2nd cohort of young professionals. We very much look forward to sharing their experiences at our upcoming #HLINSummit23 next month - details to follow!

Happy New Year from all TAPPI partners! One of our wishes for 2023 is to see the TAPPI principles co-designed in housing, health and social care policy. Here's what we've been up to so far in 2023 to help make this happen.