30 July 2008

HOUSING

Commissioning housing support for health and wellbeing (25th July 2008)
This publication has been commissioned by the Integrated Care Network (ICN) at the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP), together with Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health (DH). It builds on the recent guide from the ICN, A Practical Guide to Integrated Working, which is recommended as a companion to this publication. This report contains: Explanations of what housing-related services are and what funding streams and national programmes they sit within; Evidence that these services can offer cost-effective mechanisms for promoting health, independence and wellbeing; while reducing demand for costly services.
Commissioning housing support for health and wellbeing
A Practical Guide to Integrated Working


Housing market recessions and sustainable home-ownership (16th July 2008)

This round-up considers how the government might respond to housing market recessions in the short term, and what longer-term measures it might take to promote sustainability through the housing market cycle. The authors ask what lessons can be learned from past experiences that could inform the current period of instability.
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