HLINks: New HLIN Case Study, new blog, new resources, and news and events from the specialist housing sector.
Welcome to another edition of HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly news bulletin. This week we have a new case study, looking at a new Manchester housing development for people with cognitive conditions. We also have a new blog about the importance of design for home adaptations.
We also have our usual roundup of news and resources from the housing with care and specialist housing sectors.
Housing LIN Case Study
Creating independent homes for people developing or living with cognitive conditions in East Manchester
Housing LIN Case 157 is about South Gate, a new housing development from One Manchester, for people who are developing or living with cognitive conditions.
Written for the Housing LIN by Judy Noah, Head of Development, and Pauline Terry, Development Manager at One Manchester, the case study will be of interest to anyone involved in the planning, design, and delivery, of housing for people who are living with cognitive conditions.
The scheme has been shortlisted for Inside Housing’s 2019 Best Older People’s Housing Development of the Year, to be announced in November 2019.
Housing LIN Blog
The power of good design
Our latest Housing LIN guest blog focuses on the need for good design in home adaptations.
Laura Wood, of Invisible Creations, writes that delays to installing adaptations leads to a decrease in their efficacy, and that people and their needs have to be at the centre of designing and providing adaptations.
Housing LIN Registration
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Housing, Community, and Ageing
- Matter Architecture: Rethinking Intergenerational Housing
- Care and Repair England tool: Help with home adaptations: Improving local services
- Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Housing and Older People – Housing Issues, Aspirations & Needs
- Urban Edge: Later living isn’t just about residents… it’s more complex than that
- Nat West: Extra-care housing: a maturing market?
Design, Planning, and Technology
- The Guardian: New tech to help disabled people
Health and Social Care
- Institute for Public Policy Research: Ethical care: A bold reform agenda for adult social care
- Institute for Fiscal Studies: The outlook for councils funding: is austerity over?
- King’s Fund: Health and wellbeing boards and integrated care systems
- Foundations: Keeping People Safe At Home
- The Guardian: UK government loses supreme court fight over bedroom tax
Housing LIN Events
Events promoted by the Housing LIN
Vacancy
Greater London Authority: Senior Project Officer (Community Led Housing)
Next Week
Next week we have a Housing LIN guest blog by Accord Group’s CEO Chris Handy, on Co-ops and housing for older people, and another by Pozzoni Architect’s Nigel Saunders on intergenerational living.
If you missed this: our Extra Care Housing Survey has been extended to the end of the year.
With Thanks
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.