SEPARATE COMMUNITY PROPERTIES
PEOPLE PROVIDED WITH A SUPPORTED HOME
LOCAL AUTHORITIES SUPPORTED
The increasing demand for bespoke, community centric housing capable of providing a supportive environment for adults with long-term care needs (“supported housing”) is well documented.
The Department of Works and Pensions estimated there are approximately 651,500 supported housing units in Great Britain. Despite this volume the Government sponsored Personal Services Research Unit projects by 2030 a 55% growth in the demand for supported housing able to assist people with learning disability in addition to other demands.
Significant capital investment is needed to cater for this growing demand with the consultants Laing Buisson estimating the current value of supported housing stock around £70 billion.
This is now increasingly being provided by patient long-term institutional capital working closely within the supportive eco system needed to create specialist supported housing that works for people and for communities.
Across the UK there is an almost constant need for new and well adapted supported housing that is delivered in partnership with local authorities, families, care providers and housing managers Properties that are designed with the needs of individuals in mind and with expertise built up over many years.
Over more than 30 years, all UK governments have provided unbroken financial support for the policy of community living for those individuals with long-term care needs.
High quality homes are delivered with government funding for rental income and for the management of buildings where private sector specialists have committed all the capital cost without recourse to public subsidy.
The design of new homes enables energy efficiency to be at the heart of delivery assisting the agenda for net zero targets as well as providing supportive environments that demonstrate strong levels of social benefit for individuals and their families.
