Concerns over over-65s housing demand

The English housing market is ill-equipped’ to deal with the demand for homes for the over-65s with 95% of stock not fully accessible for older people, according to a report from IPPR North. The think tank predicts that the number of over 85s will rise by 33% over the next ten years. Despite the potential care needs of this age group, IPPR North found that a quarter of English houses have no accessibility features at all. Furthermore, 1.7m people are already living in housing that does not meet the government’s Decent Homes standard.