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Prepare for public housing supply avalanche as ageing HDB flat owners die
Singapore reaches a population milestone in 2018: The total number of senior citizens at 65 years and older equals the number of young people at 15 years and younger. So far, the discussion on an ageing population has largely been focused on the costs of healthcare and social support. It is time to consider the impact on another area - public housing.
Ku Swee Yong
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Social Housing, Policy

For Low-Income Renters, the Affordable Housing Gap Persists
Finding affordable housing isn’t getting any easier for the more than a quarter of U.S. renters that are extremely low-income. For six years, the National Low Income Housing Coalition has released an annual report calculating the discrepancy between available affordable housing units and renters who earn below the poverty line or 30 percent of the area median.
Sarah Holder
2018
Themes:
Affordable Housing, Private Rental, Rental Stress

HOMELESSNESS IN GREAT BRITAIN HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS - THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE STORY November 2018
New analysis from Shelter reveals that 320,000 people are recorded as homeless, as numbers rise again. This figure lays bare the true scale of Britain’s worsening housing crisis, despite repeated Government pledges to tackle the problem.
Shelter England
2018
Themes:
Policy, Definition of 'at risk of homelessness', Pathways into homelessness

Grey renting: the rising tide of older private tenants
New statistics from the most recent edition of the UK government’s English Housing Survey suggest a big tide of older private tenants is fast approaching. If it’s realised, this shift in the way older people are housed could see increasing numbers of pensioners paying unaffordable levels of rent, forced to move against their will or made homeless.
John Bibby
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Private Rental, Housing Affordability

A novel cohousing project for women and implications for loneliness
In the UK, some 14–17% of adults over 65 are lonely. Social isolation and the subjective experience of loneliness can increase the risk of poor health outcomes, including anxiety, depression, suicide, sleep problems and premature mortality. Cohousing is a form of grouped housing designed and managed by those who reside within it.
Helen Hopwood, Farhan Mann
2018
Themes:
Co-housing, Health, Older Women

Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation in Older People
As the number of older people in the UK is increasing and people are living longer, loneliness and social isolation is also increasing. There is a growing body of evidence about the role older people’s housing plays in tackling loneliness and social isolation, but a lack of practical guidance for providers and those who work with older people on how to address it.
Erosh
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Health, Policy, Retirement Housing

Designing Homes for an Ageing Population
Improved health and longevity in Ireland will lead to significant advances in how long people choose to work into old age, and presents huge opportunities for new thinking about positive attitudes towards ageing. As discussed in this report, this will place demands on Ireland’s social welfare and pensions system, and – without reform of housing policy the need for nursing homes and acute hospital
Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Age Specific Housing, Ageing-in-Place, Community

Amplify Insights: Housing Affordability and Homelessness
This report assembles the evidence, from official statistics, academic research, and other publicly available information about the lived experience of homelessness and housing affordability in Australia.
Kristy Muir, Chris Martin, Edgar Liu, Lisette Kaleveld, Paul Flatau, Lena Etuk, Hal Pawson
2018
Themes:
Housing Affordability, Older Men, Older Women, Policy

ODESSA - Optimising Care Delivery Models to Support Ageing in Place
ODESSA is a three-year project with the aim of finding new and innovative ways of adapting a person’s home so that they can live independently for longer and avoid going into residential care, as well as making it easier for them to access public services such as health and social services.
Karim Hadjri, Zan Yang, Marie-Eve Joël
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Health, Aged Care

Japan tries to tackle health problems of aging homeless
Public and private efforts are gathering pace to address the increase in the number of elderly homeless Japanese. A nationwide survey by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry found 5,534 people living on the streets or riverbanks as of January 2017, with many of them in urban areas such as central Tokyo’s 23 wards and the city of Osaka. Their average age was 61.5 as of October 2016, a rise of a
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Health, Poverty & homelessness

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