Edinburgh's Local Housing Strategy
Chapter Five - Provide Suitable homes with the right support to meet people’s needs
This chapter covers Housing, Health and Social Care working together; accessible and wheelchair accessible homes; help to find a home and support for independent living; adaptations, Care and Repair and delayed discharge from hospital; housing and support to meet the needs of our changing and diverse population.
Our proposed strategic objective is to ensure housing is accessible with the right support to meet everyone’s needs
Read the high-level actions we propose to take
- Develop a Joint Working Protocol between Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, Housing and Homelessness, focusing on prevention and housing need.
- Improve monitoring and reporting around accessible housing.
- Work with affordable housing partners, private sector partners and other key organisations to support provision of an adequate supply of accessible and wheelchair housing and suitable housing for people with complex needs, through new and existing homes.
- Allocation Policy for Council homes* – Review the policy to ensure it continues to enable fair access to housing, including accessible homes.
- Adaptations - Review of Governance, Delivery and Funding for Adaptations.
- Support H&SC partners in the development of the Edinburgh Dementia Delivery Plan.
- Continue to support refugees and asylum seekers through partnership and direct work.