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Housing quality and people’s health: making the case for improving health through housing

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Homes should be places of warmth and safety but for millions of people, their homes cause falls, asthma, heart problems, joint problems, and many more conditions. Understand how local areas are creating joint solutions across the health, care and housing sectors.
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Building effective local home improvement services: Good Home Hubs

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What is a Good Home Hub? Learn about this comprehensive model for home improvement services and how it can benefit people living in your area.
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Finding funds, fixing homes: innovation in local authority provision of home improvement grants and loans

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Finance is a fundamental barrier facing people who want to make improvements to their home. Learn how local areas are tailoring financial solutions to meet the needs of their residents.
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Finding funds, fixing homes: the art of the possible

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Ploy Suthimai
29 Apr 2024
More than £2 billion in home improvement funding administered by local authorities for homeowners and landlords has been cut over the last decade, writes our Homes Innovation and Change Manager Ploy Suthimai
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Finding funds, fixing homes: local authority approaches to paying for home improvements

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Centre for Ageing Better
29 Apr 2024
This research has produced three reports which we hope will serve as a useful resource for local authorities interested in expanding the financial support they offer their residents.
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New Ageing Better campaign calls on government to halve number of unsafe homes within next decade to improve nation's health

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22 Apr 2024
Newly launched Safe Homes Now campaign with eight other charities says it is time to end the scandal of 8 million people living in dangerous homes that pose significant risk to inhabitants’ health.
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Safe Homes Now

No one should have to live in a home that damages their health, yet it is the norm for far too many people in England today. We’re leading a national campaign to fix unsafe homes.
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Invitation to tender: Good Home Lincs Evaluation

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Centre for Ageing Better
8 Apr 2024
Ageing Better is seeking to commission a process and impact evaluation of a new service in Lincolnshire, ‘Good Home Lincs’, that brings together a number of new and existing home improvement services identified in Ageing Better's Good Home Hub model.
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Busting the “wealthy boomers” myth

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Aideen Young
14 Mar 2024
The post-war generation now in their 60s and 70s are often portrayed as wealthy beneficiaries of circumstance. Yet almost one in five live in poverty.
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No place for older renters

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Beth Walters
8 Mar 2024
The impact of the housing crisis on poverty is an area of growing public interest and understanding, but older people experiencing financial insecurity are often overlooked.
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