It is important to The Almshouse Association to raise awareness of almshouses, to highlight the benefits of almshouse living and to demonstrate the vital role they play in the provision of genuinely affordable homes for people in housing need.
Below you will find a library of reports and articles that have been published on almshouses and the almshouse movement in recent years. To access, please click on the respective links below:
RESEARCH & REPORTS
Understanding the impact of almshouse charities in the covid pandemic
– research undertaken by The Smith Institute | report link
event recording link | | Research
Report | commissioned by
The Almshouse Association | Oct
2022 |
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Housing our ageing population
– commissioned by the LGA from the Housing Learning and Improvement
Network (authors: Ian Copeman and Lois Beech), | click link | | Report | LGA/HLIN | Sept
2022 |
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Older People’s Care in Social Housing: A Manifesto for Change
– research sponsored by The Guinness Partnership, Housing 21
and Devonshires | click link | | Research
Report | Altair | June 2022 |
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Keeping Communities Together: How smaller social landlords and
community-led housing can provide affordable, secure, local accommodation
for communities in need
– Eleanor Benton, Ruby Russell and Anne Power
| click link | | Case
report | LSE
Housing &
Communities | 2022 |
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The Almshouse Association Financial Benefits of Almshouses
– Assessment Report | click link | | Research | Housing LIN | Nov
2021 |
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What is affordable housing?
– written by Wendy Wilson and Cassie Barton | click link | | Briefing
Paper | House of Commons | April 2021 |
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Almshouses: a model of community housing for an ageing population
– written Jenny Pannell & Alison Pooley
| click link | | Research | RICS | Dec
2020 |
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Coming Home – tackling the housing crisis together
– The Commission of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York | click link | | Report | commissioned by
The Church
of England | Feb
2021 |
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A 21st Century eco-almshouse: St. John’s Almshouses, Lichfield
– compiled by Lorin Arnold, Associate, KKE Architects | click link | | Case Study | Housing LIN | Jan
2019 |
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Almshouses for homeless people: Sir Thomas White Court, Worcester
– Written for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network by
Frazer Bufton, Director at Lett + Sweetland Architects | click link | | Case Study | Housing LIN | Aug
2019 |
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Transforming almshouses for the 21st century
– Written for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network by
Jenny Pannell, independent consultant | click link | | Report | Housing LIN | Jun
2013 |
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Almshouses into the next millennium
– Paternalism, partnership, progress? | click link | | Report | Jenny Pannell
Caroline Thomas | 1999 |
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NEWS ARTICLES & BLOGS
Heritage: Providing a safe haven over the centuries
– Gary Lawrence for Wiltshire Life | click link | magazine feature | Wiltshire Life | Nov 2022 |
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Heritage: Centuries of supporting independence
– Gary Lawrence for Wiltshire Life | click link | magazine
feature | Wiltshire Life | Oct
2022 |
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Supporting Farming Communities
– Two leading charities are seeking landowners interested in
the potential of an affordable housing project for farming communities | click link | magazine
feature | Country Land
and Business Assoc. | June
2022 |
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Secrets of Essex almshouses
– Denise Marshall for Essex Life | online story link
Magazine link | magazine
feature | Great British
Life | 29 Jun 2022 |
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Almshouses: What they are, how they were created and why
they’re still relevant in the 21st century
– Clive Aslet for Country Life | online copy
magazine copy | magazine feature | Country Life | 13 Mar
2022 |
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Understanding almshouses
– featured in LCR magazine | click link | news item | NALC | 2021 |
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Expanding the provision of almshouses to improve
our future communities
– Nick Phillips CEO, The Almshouse Association | click link | blog |
NALC | Nov
2021 |
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Almshouses: The historic model, fit for the future
– Nick Phillips CEO, The Almshouse Association | click link | blog | National Housing
Federation
| Nov
2021 |
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Open alms: the almshouse charities building new homes
Insight by Caroline Thorpe for Inside Housing | click link | article | Inside Housing
magazine | 13 Oct 2021 |
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Don’t forget almshouses
– Comment by Lord Best in Inside Housing | click link | Comment | Inside Housing
Magazine | 13 Oct 2021 |
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Remember a Charity – Pass it on
– The Almshouse Association with Dan Cruickshank | click link | article | Daily Telegraph | 10 Oct
2021 |
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HLIN Viewpoint 100 Almshouses for the 21st Century
– transformation in progress
– Written for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network | click link | Viewpoint | Housing LIN | Apr
2021 |
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Answering the 21st century call to alms
– Laura Silverman for The Daily Telegraph | click link | article | The Daily
Telegraph | 29 Feb
2021 |
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Britain is building almshouses at fastest rate since the Victorian era
– Milly Vincent for Mail online
| click link | news item | Mail online
| Jan
2020 |
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Return of almshouses for the vulnerable could help
solve Britain’s housing crisis
– Patrick Sawyer for The Telegraph
| click link | news item | The Telegraph | Jan
2020 |
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Almshouses being built at fastest rate in decades
– Becky Johnson for Sky News | click link | news item | Sky News | 3 Jan
2020 |
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The solution to ageing Britain’s housing crisis? Build almshouses
– Harriett Sherwood for The Guardian | click link | news item | The Guardian | 27 Oct
2019 |
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Almshouse boom helps poor pensioners
– Tom Ball for The Times | click link | news item | The Times | 14 Oct
2019 |
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Ageing well: a collection of innovative thinking
| click link | Collection | The Whiteley
Foundation
for Ageing Well | 2017 |
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Visiting a 900-year-old almshouse
– Insight by Simon Brandon for Inside Housing | click link | article | Inside Housing | 18 July
2014 |
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Almshouses – a model for the future?
– Anne Diamond’s BBC Blog | click link | Blog | BBC ID
webpage | 1 Dec
2010 |
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Why almshouses have a place in 21st century Sussex
– Geraldine Constantine | clink link | article | Great British
Life | 19 April
2010 |
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