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<p>Providing more homes for older people is vital to support an ageing population.
Offering older people a better choice of accommodation can help them to live independently
for longer and help reduce costs to social care and the health system. Our proposals,
set out in the White Paper<strong> ‘</strong>Fixing our broken housing market’, underline
our commitment to do more to provide the homes we need for all in our society, including
for older and disabled people. In the White Paper we also recognised and committed
to explore the barriers for older people moving at the right time to the right property,
to build on evidence to deliver outcomes that are best for older people, including
finding sustainable solutions and explore ways to stimulate the market to deliver
new homes for older people.</p><p>We also published, in July 2018, the new version
of the National Planning Policy Framework, which expressly requires local plans to
include a detailed needs assessment for housing our older and disabled populations.
We will shortly be publishing further guidance to help councils put these policies
in place.</p>
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