This week HLINks: 12 – 16 December 2022
Welcome to this week's #JeremyTalks (opens new window).
This week we celebrated HAPPI Awareness Week and put the spotlight on a number of HAPPI-inspired items:
The first is a blog by Cate Premble from the University of Stirling DesHCA project on how our homes can better support us as we age, with a particular focus on visual reality technology and how its application can enable older people to make more meaningful housing choices.
A second blog by Lois Beech, Senior Research Officer at Housing LIN shares her experience visiting sheltered housing, featuring Anchor (opens new window), WDH (opens new window) and Rooftop Housing Group (opens new window) as best practice examples.
And a final blog by Robin Beattie and David Dent on the Campus for Ageing & Vitality – A World leading place on the Spectrum of Independence in Newcastle with reference to the HAPPI design principles.
On Wednesday, we announced that submissions are invited for the HAPPI category of the Housing Design Awards, won last year by Levitt Bernstein architects for their award-winning, passivhaus extra care housing scheme for Westminster City Council, Carlton Dene – recently featured on one of our HAPPI Hour webinar.
A few other items that took my interest, include:
- I was proud to be invited to be a member of a new NHS England Sounding Board on Reablement.
- The Nationwide Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation have published a report, Talking about homes: The foundations for a decent life (opens new window)
- Last week, Foundations held their National Healthy Housing Awards. Information about the winners can be found here (opens new window).
- Public Health Wales published a literature review (opens new window) on cold homes and their association with health and wellbeing.
Lastly, we are always keen to hear stories, receive your good practice case studies and thought leadership. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk (opens new window).
Stay connected, stay curious!
Jeremy Porteus
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.