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Housing options for older people in a reimagined housing system: a case study from England
The housing options of older people now extend far beyond the traditional choice
between staying put and making do, or moving to specialist housing or residential care.
A flexible suite of options has emerged, centred on promoting independence and wellbeing.
Valuable insights have been provided into the development, delivery, costs and
benefits of these options. Light has also been cast on the experiences and preferences
of older people. However, little is know about who gets what housing, where and why.
This reflects a tendency within analysis to consider these different housing options in
isolation. This study responds by situating the housing options of older people within
wider debates about the reimagining of the housing system driven by the neoliberal
transformation in housing politics. Taking a case study approach, it explores the gap
between the ambitions of policy and realities of provision at the local level, relates this
to the particular intersection of state practices and market mechanisms manifest in the
case study and, in doing so, rises to the challenge of extending analysis of the impacts
of the neoliberal approach on the right to housing to new groups and different settings