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Older People’s Housing Taskforce launched today at Grace House in St John’s Wood

Tim Mason on resistance to the Nazis from the German working class.

Housing-with-care ‘safeguarded lives’ during pandemic A new study looking at how housing-with-care has coped over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic has found that retirement village and extra care housing operators successfully ‘safeguarded lives’ of residents and staff. The RE-COV study, which was led by the St Monica Trust and based on a survey of 38 operators, aimed to better understand the experiences of retirement villages and extra care housing during the pandemic, including the...

Incentivising “right-sizing” in retirement pivotal to addressing housing crisis Credit: Legal & General Chair of the Affordable Housing Commission Lord Best has said policies are needed to break the “cultural reticence” towards later life downsizing if the UK is to address its housing crisis. Speaking at a virtual panel hosted by Legal & General, Lord Best, a crossbench member of the House of Lords said government had to incentivise the elder generation to “right size”, so as to fr...