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Friday, 22 July 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks 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 . 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. 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
- Reader's Digest: How the rise of cohousing is enriching seniors' lives
- ADASS report: ADASS spring budget survey 2022 highlights challenges ahead for adult social care
- 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 Chief Executive |
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
HAPPI days: Housing Design Awards 2022 shortlist announced
Organised by Design for Homes, a number of HAPPI-inspired older people’s/intergenerational projects have been shortlisted for this year’s Housing Design Awards with ceremonies taking place in September.
The Housing LIN is proud to be a co-sponsor of HDA2022 and the quality of the shortlisted schemes demonstrate how HAPPI is now a mainstay of these awards.
Landlords must make decisions with tenants, not just involve them
We’re excited to share with you a new blog by Jolie Goodman at Co-Production Works – the successful new TAPPI2 ‘Co-production and Engagement’ partner – which was originally published by Inside Housing to coincide with this year’s co-production week.
What else caught our interest?
- Inside Housing article: Right sizing could be the answer to the housing crisis
- Reader's Digest: How the rise of cohousing is enriching seniors' lives
- Thirteen: “My family and I will always be grateful.”
- County Councils Network report: Census 2021: Population Change in Counties
- DLUHC research priorities: DLUHC areas of research interest
- ExtraCare Charitable Trust: How ExtraCare's Welfare Benefits Officers are saving retirement village residents nearly £5m!
- Design Museum exhibition opens: The Future of Ageing
- Housing Digital article: Moving on: What’s the answer to under-occupation for older people?
Research
Industry and non-academic partner
In this new feature, the Housing LIN pleased to report on a couple of research projects we are involved in as an industry/non-academic partner.
This week we highlight the following:
Loneliness in ageing population tackled through smart clothing and furniture
The Housing LIN is delighted to be an industry partner in a new 3-year research project on loneliness in ageing population tackled through smart clothing and furniture.
We look forward to supporting the academic team at Kings College London and University of Chester recruit housing partners and also share the learnings from the resultant research.
Bangla Research Advisory Group meets for first time
The inaugural meeting of the Bangla Research Advisory Group (BRAG) met on 13 July 2022 to co-design with local community participants the approach to engage with the probin community from the outset of the Amar Bari Amar Jibon project.
Other
We also took part in partners' meetings and workshops with the IMPACT (University of Birmingham), CHIC (University of Bristol) and SASCI (LSE) research projects.
To find out more about all the research projects the Housing LIN is involved in, visit our Current Projects page.
And if you have a research project that could benefit from Housing LIN involvement or want to find out how we can support you with knowledge exchange/disseminating your findings to make an impact, email: info@housinglin.org.uk
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
Housing LIN signs up to the Placemaking Wales Charter
We are delighted to announce that Housing LIN Cymru has become a signatory to the Design Commission for Wales’ Placemaking Wales Charter.
What else caught our interest?
- Government guidance: Streets for a Healthy Life
- TCPA news: Healthy Homes Bill debate
- Campaign to End Loneliness event recording: Tackling Loneliness through the built environment: Making less lonely places: how do we make it happen?
- UK Research and Innovation: Our Story so Far
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
This week we published a blog by Jolie Goodman at Co-Production Works – the successful new TAPPI2 ‘Co-production and Engagement’ partner – which was originally published by Inside Housing on 4th July 2022 to coincide with this year’s co-production week and looks at how social landlords can go about making consumer regulation changes.
While we excitedly anticipate the announcement of the successful locality 'testbeds' (or demonstrator sites), find our more on this exciting programme that aims ensure that the evidence gathered by the Inquiry in TAPPI1 is built upon and used to create a widely accepted Framework which embeds the recommended TAPPI Principles within a transformational change programme.
Would you like to receive regular TAPPI2 updates direct to your inbox? If you haven’t already, please remember to update your Housing LIN profile and tick the ‘Telecare and Digital Technology’ topic.
Health and social care, mental health and learning disability
What caught our interest?
- ADASS report: ADASS spring budget survey 2022 highlights challenges ahead for adult social care
- Government policy document: Better Care Fund policy framework: 2022 to 2023
- Foundations news: National Healthy Housing Awards now open for submissions
Dementia
What caught our interest?
- Alzheimers' Society news: Our research grants are open
- Cambridge University Press: Socioeconomic inequality of long-term care for older people with and without dementia in England
Wales
Housing LIN signs up to the Placemaking Wales Charter
We are also delighted to announce Housing LIN Cymru has become a signatory to the Design Commission for Wales' Placemaking Wales Charter.
Events
Watch, Listen & Learn
In recognition of the success of our HAPPI Hour sessions, we are delighted that the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, have come on board as a sponsor of our online events.
Book yourself on to our final HAPPI Hour webinar of this season! Taking place on Tuesday, 26 July, in partnership with Park Grove interior design and Motionspot, we look forward to launching the Housing LIN's refreshed factsheet on interior design and how it impacts quality of life in later life housing. Secure your place now!
Please note that we are curating an exciting autumn/winter programme of HAPPI Hour sessions, commencing on Tuesday, 20 September. Watch out for details in the coming weeks.
Events supported by the Housing LIN
- National Housing Summit 2022 Monday, 12th – Tuesday, 13th September
- East of England: LGA - Putting People at the Heart of New Housing Development: Co-producing the Place We Call Home on Friday, 7th October 9:30am – 4:00pm
- SALUS Healthy City Design conference Monday, 10 October – Tuesday, 11 October - Call for papers now open
Next week
Join us on Tuesday for the launch of our refreshed Interior Design fact sheet at our last HAPPI Hour session of the series. Hear from author Lori Pinkerton-Rolet, Director at Park Grove Design Ltd, and Motionspot's co-founder and CEO, Ed Warner. Secure your place here!
Please note that next week's HLINks is our final one before our summer break. We resume on Friday, 2 September when we also look forward to announcing our autumn/winter HAPPI Hour series of webinars.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.