This week’s HLINks: 18 – 22 July 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks (opens new window) and this week’s sector news from the Housing LIN.
We are delighted to report that the Housing LIN has become a signatory to the Design Commission for Wales' Placemaking Wales Charter (opens new window). With our commitment to the HAPPI design principles, we firmly support the Charter's 6 core components and the inclusive approach to placemaking, including creating age-friendly homes and communities.
In other news, 11 HAPPI-inspires projects have been shortlisted for this year's Housing Design Awards (opens new window). The submissions include a selection of extra care housing, retirement villages, almshouse provision and cohousing. The Housing LIN is proud to be a sponsors of these awards and the quality of the shortlisted schemes demonstrate how HAPPI has become a mainstay of these awards with winners to be announced in September.
And following the announcement of the TAPPI2 coproduction lead last month, with permission for Inside Housing, we release a blog by Coproduction Works' Jolie Goodman in which she looks at how social landlords can go about making consumer regulation changes.
What else caught my interest?
- Inside Housing article: Right sizing could be the answer to the housing crisis (opens new window)
- Reader's Digest: How the rise of cohousing is enriching seniors' lives (opens new window)
- ADASS report: ADASS spring budget survey 2022 highlights challenges ahead for adult social care (opens new window)
- Government policy document: Better Care Fund policy framework: 2022 to 2023
- County Councils Network report: England’s counties see elderly population ‘boom’ over the last decade, with over 1 million more over 65s living in those areas
- Design Museum exhibition opens: The Future of Ageing
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Jeremy Porteus
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.