This week’s HLINks: 17-21 August 2020

Welcome to Jeremy talks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's free weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending 21st August 2020.

In this week’s edition we bring you a selection of new Housing LIN resources. They include 2 new guest blogs. The first by LIFEstyle by ENGIE’s Paula Broadbent on Empowering our older generation by giving them energy to create their own future. The other by Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva, Roderick Lawrence entitled, Housing Matters for All, in which he sets out how to accommodate a growing diversity of activities, lifestyles and needs in our housing.

And a reminder: this week is your last chance to take part in our working from home survey (opens new window). We have teamed up with the Workhome Project (opens new window) to take the pulse of home working in the UK's social housing. Whether working in social housing or a tenant, please share your experiences under Covid and complete online by 28th August.

In this week’s HLINks you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living through the lens of homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, and planning matters.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN (opens new window) and @HousingLINews (opens new window).

Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share learning about your work and/or require our expert advice and guidance, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

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This week HLINks also includes:

a round-up of latest/updated Covid-19 resources and guidance relevant to the sector
our usual a round-up of news headlines and new resources on housing, ageing, design and technology, planning, health and care, calls for information
In association with Tetlow King Planning, the updated Older People’s Care Development – Local Development Plan Monitoring

And next week, we look forward to featuring a new report by the National Housing Federation, written by the Housing LIN, to coincide with their #HomesattheHeart (opens new window) campaign, and a new guest blog on Thirteen Group’s floating support services in Middlesbrough during lockdown and the impact on extremely vulnerable adults.

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.

Stay connected, stay well and be safe!