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Housing and Houses
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What is Housing and Houses?
Where you live, who you live with and how you are supported are very important to everybody.
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What does Valuing People say?
Government wants more people with learning disabilities and their carers to have a greater choice and control over where and how they live.
There is evidence that:
- People with learning disabilities can live successfully in many different kinds of housing. They can cope with a full range of tenures, including owning their own homes.
- Most people with learning disabilities live with their families. The reason they have to leave is often because of an emergency like the illness or death of a carer.
- More and more people are living with older carers, so we need to get better at planning for the future.
Studies have shown that there are good and bad points about every type of housing.
Things like staff training and management style are as important the type of housing you live in.
Valuing People says that no types of housing should be counted out.
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Links and Resources
Longer summary of what Valuing People says about Housing
This paper says more about what Valuing People says about housing.