Housing Lin

A Panel of Parliamentarians and experts have called for urgent action to regenerate a significant proportion of the estimated 527,000 sheltered housing properties in the UK, to provide good quality, accessible homes for people in later life that meet contemporary standards and expectations.

Housing LIN has shared its newest case study on accessible and inclusive housing. The case study has been written in the context of the 'Enhancing the accessibility, adaptability and usability of Scotland’s homes consultation' being conducted by the Scottish Government, which closes

Eight built environment bodies, fire safety organisations and disability rights groups have signed a joint letter to the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, urging him to require more than one staircase in new residential buildings over 18 metres tall.

Bield has been awarded funding that will get older tenants involved in shaping new digital services, enabling them to live as independently as possible. The housing provider has successfully secured £75k in funding from the pioneering TAPPI project (Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel

New research exploring the impact of stigma on fuelling inequalities experienced by UK disabled adults in later life, to include a contribution from the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, has secured funding of £2 million. Led by University of Stirling housing expert Dr Vikki McCall,

A new collaborative report from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN) has outlined the case for reducing rates of smoking in the social housing sector as part of social landlords’ health and wellbeing activity and the action needed to achiev

In the latest in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion blog series from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), Paul Willis, Brian Beach and the DICE team from Housing LIN explain that housing schemes for older people help to alleviate loneliness, however,