Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network launch Charter

The Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network, a coalition of twelve housing associations of which Progress Housing Group is one, is calling for action to address the barriers for new, sustainable quality housing for people with a learning disability and/or autism.

There is clear evidence that strategically planned sustainable, quality supported housing for people with a learning disability and/or autism provides long-term positive benefits for them and delivers value for money for social care and health commissioners.

Today, 25 March 2021, members are launching their Charter at the National Housing Federation’s National Housing Summit 2021 with four calls for action:

• Government to create a more comprehensive and integrated national and local planning and policy framework for supported housing for people with a learning disability and autism.
• Government to create the conditions for the growth of supply by allocating a higher proportion of the new affordable homes programme to new housing for people with learning disabilities and autism. 
• A rent standard that supports the commissioning and funding of new supported housing for people with high support needs.
  
  
• A long-term sustainable, consistent housing benefit regime for supported housing.

Coalition members

The founder members are Ability Housing Association, Advance, Care Housing Association, Golden Lane Housing, Home Group, Irwell Valley Homes, LiveWest, Onward, Places for People, Progress Housing Group, Reside, and Riverside.