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Housing LIN Conferences 2025

We were delighted to be joined by over 200 delegates at the "A Festival of Ideas" Annual Conference in Leeds earlier this month, focusing on Age-Friendly Homes and Connected Communities. Speakers discussed innovative housing, design, and technology. Session materials will be available soon.

Next week, we return to London for #HLINconf25 Round 2, focusing more on affordable housing, healthy ageing, and community design for an ageing population. Key themes include understanding housing preferences, local authority planning, leadership in housing, customer-centered care, technology in home care, addressing poor-quality housing, and investing in affordable housing solutions for older people.

Resource Roundup

New Report Offers Practical Advice for Embedding Health in Design Codes

The Quality of Life Foundation’s new report, Design Codes for Health and Wellbeing, provides key guidance for integrating health into urban design. Aimed at planners, developers, local authorities, public health professionals, and community groups, the guide offers practical advice for creating spaces that promote healthier lives.

Expert Insights

TAPPI Days – A Telecare National Plan for Action

Last month, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology released the Telecare National Action Plan, ‘Protecting telecare users throughout the digital switchover journey.’ In response, we invited several Housing LIN members supporting specialists and providers of technology-enhanced housing and care services to share their views on the plan and proposed measures for the digital switchover, set to occur by January 2027.

Explore this insightful blog for more details.

Leadership in times of crisis: The courage to make mistakes

This blog by Chloe Halsted, Parliamentary and Policy Researcher to the Bishops of Derby, Lincoln and Sheffield, explores her journey with leadership through a diverse career path, beginning with a degree in Music and evolving through various roles in public health, teaching, family services, and policy research, including her previous work with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People.

A broader understanding of leadership

Written by Amrik Singh Jassal, Planned Investment Manager at Clarion Housing Group, this Housing LIN guest blog explores his experience with the Housing LIN Future Leaders Network, highlighting how it has expanded their professional network and developed key leadership skills.

What else caught our interest...

• Adelaide Chronicles: Intentional communities
• Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods: Public First - Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods: Opinion Research Summary
• The King’s Fund: The Government Wants a ‘Neighbourhood Health Service’. The First Step is to Agree What That Means
• MHCLG: The Planning and Infrastructure Bill
• National Housing Federation: The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act
• Pathway: “Helping or Harming?” The Homeless & Inclusion Health Barometer 2025
• Places for People: Work set to begin on £23million extra care housing development
• Property Week: Time for action: what does the future hold for later living accommodation?

See What We’re Working on Behind the Scenes!

We're busy planning our Spring/Summer series of HAPPI Hour webinars. In the meantime, you can watch all previous HAPPI Hour webinar recordings here.

Curious about the various projects the Housing LIN is engaged in? These include groundbreaking research collaborations with universities and the creation of new tools and resources to shape policy and practice. Find out more here!

Events supported by the Housing LIN

Property Week’s Later Living Conference - London, 2 April 2025

Housing LIN Research and Advisory Services

Building on our highly-prized learning and improvement ethos, the Housing LIN can help you and your organisation underpin your progress in a changing and challenging work environment.

Let's Work Together! To find out how we can support your operational and/or strategic plans, contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our Research and Advisory Services.