Written question asked by Baroness Greengross (Crossbench) on Tuesday, 24 May 2022, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 9 June 2022. It was answered by Lord Greenhalgh (Conservative) on Thursday, 9 June 2022 on behalf of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Housing: Disability and Older People

Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that (1) older people, and (2) people with disabilities, can live in suitable housing.

Answer: This Government is committed to ensuring older and disabled people can access homes that best suits their needs.

We work closely with the Department of Health and Social Care to provide capital funding to incentivise supply. This includes investing £11.5 billion in the new Affordable Homes Programme, which includes delivery of new specialist or supported housing for older, disabled and other vulnerable people. We have also committed £573 million for the Disabled Facilities Grant each year from 2022-23 to 2024-25 to support eligible older and disabled people to adapt their homes to suit their needs.

As announced in the Levelling Up White Paper, we will shortly launch a new government taskforce to look at ways we can provide better choice, quality and security of housing for older people.

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