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Implementing Good Home Hubs: The Demand, Costs, Finance and Delivery

Implementing Good Home Hubs COVER

This briefing by Demos for the Centre for Ageing Better looks into recommendations to implement Good Home Hubs and identifies barriers to implementation, calculates current demand for services and estimates the longer term impacts of setting up Good Home Hubs across the country.

Previous research by Demos, supported by Centre for Ageing Better, has shown that improving the quality of UK homes could provide a ‘triple dividend’, with benefits for:

  • The economy – 107,488 jobs created or sustained in related industries, £858m annual savings to the NHS through prevention, and a £10bn annual boost to the UK.
  • Health – 105,151 additional years of healthy life added per year
  • The environment – 744,283 tons of CO2 emissions reduced

This briefing builds on these findings and specifically looks into recommendations to implement Good Home Hubs – an idea pioneered by the Centre for Ageing Better of local one-stop shops for support on housing improvements and also recommended by the recent Older People’s Housing Taskforce (opens new window).