Too Little, Too Late? Housing for An Ageing Population – Resource Library – Resources – Housing LIN
This report by the CASS Business School and Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation was commissioned by ARCO and advocates a holistic policy agenda including a national plan and a key role for local authorities and health and care services.

It highlights how high-quality retirement housing has a crucial role to play in tackling the urgent housing, health and social care challenges facing an ageing population.

The report calls for action from the public and private sectors, including:

• National and local housing programmes should include specific targets for dwellings designed to cater for older people
• Planning permission must be easier to obtain
• The demand is there as baby boomers seek to redeploy housing equity into smaller, more convenient homes with access to services
• Proposes greater collaboration – between local authorities and
• Closer attention to policies that incentivise downsizing and ways to make moving easier for older people.