Public speaking still gives me the fear but was a real pleasure to interview John Bennett last night who gave powerful & personal insight into the impact developing housing around people rather than for £££ can make.

We’re almost there at the Radical Housing Conference!
Elena Marco Pro-Vice Chancellor Uwe is chairing the plenary.
As a Spanish women living in the UK for 25 yrs, the word she uses to describe UK housing is “Odd!”
We know how many bedrooms we have but not their m2!
#RHC2023 📏

Guy Harris of AccessiblePRS
Leads the audience to discover that accessibility is a part of all our lives from the very young to elders & everyone in between.
Othering it misses opportunities for a better homes & resilient communities, happier & healthy living.
#RHC2023

Getting people into their own homes is transformative!
The journey can take decades long!
But a home & a cat is all it took to be happy.
To make this happen routinely, requires us to systematically rethink how we approach care, inclusion & access to housing.
#RHC2023
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Clare Skidmore of @NHS England is giving our keynote for the Care & Inclusion session of the Radical Housing Conference.
Many people, with learning disability & autism, find themselves ‘locked-in’ hospitals, without a pathway into supported living in their own home.
#RHC2023

We’re in the Resilience theme of the Radical Housing Conference.
Tom Chance CEO of the Community Land Trust Network setting the scene for how we bring bring together all our themes, Community, Land, Finance, Homelessness, Care & Inclusion.
Resilience is all of us in balance.🌍💚

Tom Renhard of Bristol City Council talking about innovation in housing in Bristol.
Community-led homes a key part of housing delivery strategy.
Lots of great examples like WeCanMake show just what can be done when you go radical!
#RHC2023

Out now!! New film from our project 'Collaborative housing: A better place to age?' funded by NIHR SSCR #HousingCHIC UoBris PolicyStudies Aimée Felstead femimeli Jim Hudson Jeremy Porteus Kathleen Scanlon

collabhousingcare.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/chic-film/

French study examining the potential to promote good ageing in collaborative housing! #housingCHIC

Today, the European network of Community Land Trusts European Community Land Trust Network was presented with the participation of Barcelona, in the framework of #ISHF2023 . 🚀 #SocialHousing

Read more about how the Community Land Trust model (CLT) can respond to the housing challenge in Europe and why now is the right time for the network’s launch 👇

world-habitat.org/news/our-blog/…

At #ISHF2023 , our #chicproject Jim Hudson, Punt 6 and the hsing municipality of The Hague all argued that putting a politics and practice of care at centre of how we conceptualise and practice #collaborative & #community living is core to our intergenerational futures

Hosted powerful intl. xchange yesterday Lleialtat Santsenca, expanding on emerging themes from 3yr #housingCHIC NIHR School for Social Care Research UoBris PolicyStudies project: Collaborative Housing & Innovative Practice in Care, w/ mix of #cohousing #cooperative #cohabitatge residents/academics/practitioners/policy makers

‘Collaborative housing can support the feeling of belonging in later life’ Yvonne Witter presents projects from the Netherlands ISHF - International Social Housing Festival and explains how cohousing can contribute to creating caring communities. ZorgSaamWonen #ISHF2023

It was a pleasure to meet collaborative housing members, researchers, policy makers and experts from the UK, Spain and across Europe yesterday. Thank you femimeli for all your organisation and I hope to see some of you again at the #ISHF in Barcelona this week.

Roser Casanovas Punt 6 presenting the Community Care Project ISHF - International Social Housing Festival : ‘There is a need to change priorities and place everyday life and care at the center of urban decisions with specific attention to the active participation of women’. #ISHF2023

Our launch event begins ISHF - International Social Housing Festival !

“The European Community Land Trust Network is a brilliant move to scale up a successful alternative to the dominant housing system across Europe.” Thanks to Leilani Farha 🍉 for her inspiring keynote. #ISHF