United Kingdom

The experiments providing homes around the world

While housing is a national crisis, the most pressing concerns differ from area to area. The lack of affordable homes being built every year is a huge issue. The current crisis isn’t just about a lack of political will to invest in social housing.

Yvonne Roberts

2016

Themes:

Social Housing, Future housing solutions, Retirement Housing

Older People and Housing: Towards a Wiser Community

The New Age of Ageing, identified the ways in which older people are viewed in society.

Caroline Lodge, Eileen Carnell, Marianne Coleman

2016

Themes:

Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Age-Friendly Cities, Community

A Home for Life? A Critical Perspective on Housing Choice for “Downsizers” in the UK

A range of policy, research and media commentary has highlighted the link between housing, health, and wellbeing in later life, with discourses around “ageing in place” and “downsizing” emerging as particularly dominant. This paper critiques current practices and discourses around the commissioning, design, and management of purpose-built retirement housing.

Adam Park, Friederike Ziegler

2016

Themes:

Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Downsizing, Policy, Health, Retirement Housing

Pollard Thomas Edwards completes UK's first over 50s co-housing scheme

Pollard Thomas Edwards has completed the UK's first co-housing project for older residents in north London, comprising brick mews houses arranged around a communal garden. New Ground Co-housing is a women-only complex set on the site of a former convent in High Barn.

Jessica Mares

2016

Themes:

Co-housing, Older Women

Generation Stuck Exploring the Reality of Downsizing in Later Life

The concept of downsizing in later life has received growing attention in debates over the current state of the housing market in the UK. However, in much of the recent debate around housing and later life, there is an underlying thread that under-occupancy by older people is a social injustice against younger generations struggling to get on the property ladder.

Brian Beach

2016

Themes:

Ageing Population, Downsizing, Policy

The Future of Housing and Home: Scenarios for 2030

This UK report looks at the future through the lens of four different scenarios that challenge the way we think about housing and home. The report provides a fascinating and provocative look at different drivers of change and how these could manifest themselves in the way we live in fifteen to twenty years’ time.

Andrew Curry, Paul Raven, Victoria Heptonstall, Izzi Lambert, Ben Wood

2016

Themes:

Ageing Population, Future housing solutions

A community hub approach to older people’s housing

This paper explores the potential of housing with care schemes to act as community hubs. The analysis highlights a range of benefits, barriers and facilitators.

Simon Evans, Teresa Atkinson, Robin Darton, Ailsa Cameron, Ann Netten, Randall Smith, Jeremy Porteus

2016

Themes:

Ageing Population, Age Specific Housing, Aged Care, Health, Retirement Housing

Almshouses: their role in housing policy

Almshouses are charitable organisations, some of which are also Registered Social landlords.

Wendy Wilson, Alex Adcock

2016

Themes:

Ageing Population, Age Specific Housing, Future housing solutions, Policy

The Social Housing Ageing & Disability Crisis

Allied to the UK's rapidly ageing population and the rising number of people developing dementia, the need to provide safe social housing for those who are older and/or disabled is becoming increasingly urgent and intense. A major piece of recent research by the Smith Institute forecasts that by 2034 there will be 170,000 more residents with mobility problems living in housing association pr

AKW Ltd

2016

Themes:

Ageing Population, Social Housing, Health, Policy