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The Design of Mainstream Housing for Downsizers
In the United Kingdom, the supply of new homes to the housing market tends to be focused either on "general-needs" housing on the one hand, or on special-needs housing for the elderly on the other, with relatively few people moving into homes that will support their independence as they age. Against the backdrop of the UK's chronic housing shortage and the UK government's recent Housing Standards Review, this case study of a mainstream housing development-which meets so-called "Lifetime Homes" in "Lifetime Neighborhoods" standards-identifies specific design and locational features that have attracted "downsizers" to buy into it, as well as those they subsequently found problematic.
The Design of Mainstream Housing for Downsizers
In the United Kingdom, the supply of new homes to the housing market tends to be focused either on "general-needs" housing on the one hand, or on special-needs housing for the elderly on the other, with relatively few people moving into homes that will support their independence as they age. Against the backdrop of the UK's chronic housing shortage and the UK government's recent Housing Standards Review, this case study of a mainstream housing development-which meets so-called "Lifetime Homes" in "Lifetime Neighborhoods" standards-identifies specific design and locational features that have attracted "downsizers" to buy into it, as well as those they subsequently found problematic.
The Design of Mainstream Housing for Downsizers
Sutherland, Janet (author) / Tarbatt, Jonathan
2016
Article (Journal)
English
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