LDA Housing Charter

The Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network  launched its Charter on 25 March 2021 at the National Housing Federation’s National Housing Summit 2021. The network is a coalition of twelve housing associations, including Advance as a founding member, 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. The Network is calling for four areas of 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 growth of supply by allocating a higher proportion of the new affordable homes programme to new housing for people with learning disability 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.

Further information:

• Download the Charter
• Visit the Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network page
• Read the blog by John Verge, chair of Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network and CEO at Golden Lane Housing ‘Why we must work together to provide quality housing and support for people with a learning disability and autism’