News : EAC

Professional alliance launches manifesto for older people’s housing 27 March 2024 A national strategy is needed urgently to address the housing needs of our ageing population, according to the Housing and Ageing Alliance (HAA).

Older People’s Housing Taskforce update 20 August 2023 The Taskforce, set up by Government and chaired by Professor Julienne Meyer, held its inaugural meeting on 17^th May 2023 and will run for up to a year. It is tasked with exploring how the range of housing options available to older people in England can be expanded, and making recommendations to Ministers Rachel Maclean (Housing) and Helen Whatley (Care). An interim report is expected during September 2023.

Recent reports offer solutions to sluggish delivery of new retirement housing 19 January 2023 Reports by the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People and the Retirement Housing Group focus respectively on increasing demand by addressing affordability and increasing supply through updates to the planning system

Round-up of EAC activity in 2022 18 December 2022 It was a busy year for data collection as we worked to update our information on new-build housing completions delayed from 2020-21, as well as to capture as much as we could of pipeline data for schemes likely to complete in 2023-25.

EAC housing options service celebrates first 6 months 23 July 2022 Our new service, EAC Advice, is just 6 months old and recorded its 1,500th enquiry this week. Please feel welcome to use the service yourself, or to alert family members, neighbours or clients to it.

EAC launches directory of available shared ownership property 23 July 2022 Shared ownership is a tenure more familiar to younger people, as a way of getting a foot on the home-ownership ladder by buying a share in a property and paying rent on the share they don’t own.