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Happy New Year from all of us at the Housing LIN! As we return to work, each day this week we will be featuring our Chief Executive's wishes for the year ahead. Today's wish is for the establishment of the Older People Housing Task Force.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including the Housing LIN’s ‘Top of the Pops’, two final guest blogs of the year and the HAPPI Hour webinar recording on urban ageing.

As residents and extra care housing operators prepare for celebrating Christmas, catering is so vital for a scheme as it brings residents together, provides nutritious meals and is the hub of the scheme. This Housing LIN guest blog shares five tips to making catering a solution not a problem.

As we approach Christmas and the New Year, we look back at our top 10 most popular resources in 2022. These included a selection of publications published by the Housing LIN, others produced by our consultancy team, and those we were pleased to release in association with partner organisations.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Julia Ashley, Business Development Director at C&C/Aster Group, draws attention to Grace House, C&C’s flagship scheme that welcomed new and returning residents into the 170 home scheme over the summer in the heart of St John’s Wood, London

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including an overview of HAPPI Awareness Week publications, Housing Design Awards announcement, and TAPPI blog by project partner, The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research.

The University of Stirling are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic quantitative social scientist to join an ESRC-funded project looking at Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA).  

Our final blog of HAPPI Awareness Week is by Robin Beattie, Senior Project Manager within Newcastle University and Development Manager for the Campus for Ageing & Vitality project and David Dent, Director of Creed North, Development Consultant also on Campus for Ageing & Vitality project.

In this new TAPPI blog, The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) reveals several key considerations which organisations planning to evaluate a technology service should take into account

We are delighted to support The Housing Design Awards, which opened for entries this month. Set up by the Ministry of Health in 1948, the Department for Health added a HAPPI award category in 2010 to the unrivalled national record of high quality residential schemes.