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The affordability of retirement housing
— an inquiry ... | | Author(s) | Richard Best |
| Corporate Author | All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People |
| Publisher | All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People, London, 2013 |
| Pages | 51 pp |
| Source | Also available as download: http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theaffordabili... |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Costs ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | There is evidence that older people who move to specialist retirement housing (e.g. apartments, town houses and bungalows) enjoy a higher quality of life, improved social networks, and positive outcomes in health and well-being. Politicians and policy makers across the political spectrum are concerned with the plight of first time buyers. There is much less attention on older people who occupy homes which are too large, difficult to maintain, and expensive to run. This paper presents conclusions and recommendations from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People (APPG) inquiry which considered what actions could be taken to bridge the affordability gap for retirement housing, and measures to enable older people to move to more suitable housing. It draws on sources including Jenny Pannell's evidence review on supported housing for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), research commissioned by McCarthy and Stone; and research undertaken by Demos. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150724016 B |
| Classmark | KE: WC: TM2 |
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