The latest HAPPI Hour webinar, Towards Age-Friendly Futures: Local Practice and Perspectives, brought together academics, practitioners, and policy experts to discuss how we can create inclusive, age-friendly communities, a key recommendation of the Older People’s Housing Taskforce.

Hosted by the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN), the session explored what it truly means to develop age-friendly futures, bridging the gap between research, policy, and everyday experience. The discussion featured a dynamic mix of perspectives, highlighting innovative practice and the latest applied thinking on designing places that support healthy and connected ageing.

Iain Scott from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Architecture, reflected on his Housing LIN guest blog, ‘What Makes a Good Place for Healthy Ageing: Developing a Tool to Assess Ageing in Place‘, and Dr Hannah Marston of The Open University shared insights from her recent Housing LIN Viewpoint on affordability and its role in shaping age-friendly cities and communities.