Final #HLINks of 2025!✨
💠 #HLINViewpoint with WWA
💠 2024–25 Year in Review
💠 23 #HAPPIHour recordings
💠 Save-the-date for Housing LIN Conference 2026
💠 New gov consultations
💠 #HLINblogs on later living & lots more!
www.housinglin.org.uk/nl/?nid=3195
Thanks for an amazing 2025. Happy holidays!🎉
#HLINViewpoint: C2 or C3? Why this planning grey area still confuses everyone & why it matters for housing & affordability
Ifti Maniar (WWA Studios) explores how inconsistent C2/C3 rules are holding back specialist housing for older people in England/Wales.
🔗 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...
🏡New #HLINViewpoint & #HLINCaseStudy on Appleby Blue shows how design, support & community enhance older people’s wellbeing & independence.
Join author Alison Benzimra (United St Saviour's Charity) in tomorrow’s #HAPPIHour “Almshouses Reimagined” to learn more: www.housinglin.org.uk/News/New-ins...
In this #HLINViewpoint, Prof Joost van Hoof & Dr Hannah Marston warn that ignoring financial realities risks excluding older people from urban life.
They urge evidence-based tools & policies that keep affordability central to age-friendly planning.
🔗 Read at www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...
Hundreds of thousands of new homes have been built since 2022, and most are still inaccessible. Why?
In a new Housing LIN Viewpoint, Joan Rutherford calls out the excuses blocking #M42 regs: cost? minor. impact? massive.
Read here🔗 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/... #HLINViewpoint
Loneliness is a health crisis & social connection is infrastructure.
In a new #HLINViewpoint, Churchill Fellow Savannah Fishel explores how “neighbourisms” (small, everyday acts of care in intergenerational housing) can be a powerful part of the solution.
🔗 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...
🚨Today’s #HLINks newsletter:
• Reflect on Loneliness Week & tackling isolation
• Celebrate Carers Week & support for carers
• Gov’t £39bn social housing investment update
• Upcoming webinars & leadership opportunities
• New #HLINViewpoint!
Read on: www.housinglin.org.uk/nl/?nid=3130
🚨New #HLINViewpoint!
Former planner Roger Hawkins reflects on the 1.5M homes target by 2029.
Planning, design & skilled labour are key—but short-term fixes won’t work.
Read 👉 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...
#HousingCrisis #Planning #SkillsGap
🆕New Viewpoint!
John Payne (Matters Grey) calls for bold action on long-term care funding.
From tapping housing wealth to inheritance tax reform—practical ideas exist. What’s missing? Political courage.
Read here👇
www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/... #HLINViewpoint
