Housing LIN 2020 headline facts and figures

We look forward to sharing with you the exciting things we have planned for 2021 to coincide with the Housing LIN’s 10th anniversary independent of government.

In the meantime, looking back at 2020, you may be interested to know that with our rapid move to digital the Housing LIN has had:

over 509,000 webpage views
a membership increase of almost 20% with over 4,600 new registrations
over 2,000 people join our week-long 2020 Summit (compared to 300 delegates when our annual conference is held in person)
held 10 HAPPI Hour webinars, attracting over 1,400 people (compared to 600 delegated for our pre-Covid regional meetings and roundtable discussions), and
published a total of 96 new Housing LIN resources: from blogs and viewpoints to case studies and reports, including our illustrated CollaborAGE directory.

We have pulled out the headlines below for more details.

ESSENTIAL NEWS & RESOURCES

In 2020, we published 96 new Housing LIN resources:

In addition, we published a must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, every week, except over Christmas/New Year.

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WEB PRESENCE

With over ½ million unique page views, the 3 top topics viewed on our website are:

But with the pandemic, these were closely followed by our new Coronavirus Info Hub which we developed as the pandemic was taking hold. As part of this hub, drawing on our and Housing LIN members’ experience and expertise, we also produced a series of 6 more detailed COVID-19 practice briefings which were amongst our most popular downloads in 2020.

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INCREASING MEMBERSHIP

We saw an unbelievable 20% increase in registrations to our Network last year. Welcome to all our new members!

However, whether you are a new or existing member, did you know you can sign up to hear about particular areas of interest? From mainstream or specialist housing, to dementia, design, planning and many more. Simply login to your account and tick your areas of interest.

POPULAR EVENTS

Last March, as a result of the pandemic, we quickly had to adapt the ways we engage and network with members. As a result, by we created the HAPPI Hour brand so that we could offer our sector showcase events to enhance learning and connect with other Housing LIN members virtually.

Following the success of our HAPPI Hour brand, we reframed the programme and rescheduled our high-profile annual conference (originally due to be held in late March 2020) to December 2020, rebranding it the ‘Housing LIN Summit 2020 – Reaching for the Top’.

Moving to a virtual platform allowed us to open registrations to up to 500 delegates at each session and share recordings of our sessions (opens new window), allowing us to reach in some cases an extra 350 people. Total views of these video recordings reached over 2,000 by the end of December 2020.

Throughout the year, in addition to our popular HAPPI Hour events, we also managed and/or cobranded 21 other events/conferences with supporters of our network. For example, last month, over 220 people joined us for the launch of the new APPG Inquiry report, Housing for people with dementia: Are we ready?

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AN ACTIVE FORUM

The purpose of our peer-to-peer discussion forum allows Housing LIN members to share information, raise issues and ask questions that either enhance sector learning and/or aid professional and/or practice development.

For example, with increasing concern about the effect of COVID-19 on the retirement housing and supported housing sectors during the first few weeks of the pandemic, the Housing LIN was contacted by the MHCLG to urgently find out from our members if they had any specific PPE issues and any other related issues that needed to be escalated. We collated all the replies on our forum and informed MHCLG accordingly.

WITH THANKS

We would like to thank all of our sponsors, whose continued support means that we can keep providing our members with the most up to date and important information and intelligence.

The Housing LIN will continue to be the go-to network in England, Wales and Scotland for everyone working across housing, social care and health, and we will continue to work with you, our members, to champion latest innovations in housing with care. Here’s to 2021 and our 10th anniversary. Look out for details on how we plan to celebrate!

And lastly, remember you can follow us on Twitter for the latest news, views, resources and consultancy updates:

@HousingLIN (opens new window) – Jeremy Porteus, Chief Executive’s account
@HousingLINews (opens new window) – News, publications & events
@HLINConsult (opens new window) – Ian Copeman, Operations Director’s account