The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities has announced a £50m fund to help older and disabled people in England, make adaptations to enable them to continue to live independently - and that includes in private rental property.
Landlords can access the funding from the local authority Disabled Facilities Grant, providing they have a tenant living in the property that requires the adaptation. Currently, DFG’s can be used to fund up to £30,000 towards adaptation in any one home in England.
According to the Older Person’s Taskforce for housing, there are 12.4m people in Britain aged over 65 - that’s 18 per cent of the population. By 2041, this is projected to rise to 20.4m or 26 per cent of the population.
Propertymark, the letting agents’ organisation, says the increase in funding comes following its own response to the Call for Evidence from the Older Persons Housing Taskforce.
Propertymark called for the UK government to improve access and promote the DFG to private landlords and their agents to ensure that more property in the private rented sector is accessible; and for grants, interest-free loans and tax incentives for developers to build the right type of housing for disabled people.
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I thought we were all evicting tenants when they reached 55yrs!
My best tenants are all over 55, I'd take them anyday over young couples. So much less hassle.
Best 1 yet stayed 17 years before she had to go into a nursing home.
Sounds good in theory but is there a catch? Other than them running out of money.
Of course they'll be a catch, have no doubt of that
Many landlords are over 65 too, so as well as being forced to have licensed houses in Multiple Occupation including even when we rent house to a family.
They’ll now want us to be care homes, caring for people younger than ourselves.
I have already done jobs for male tenants who are a third of my age, simply because they lack the capacity or inclination to do them, not because they are my duty to do as the landlord.
Many Councils built multi storey flats where the lifts didn't even have enough room for an upright coffin and two undertakers so the undertaker with the coffin had to wait on the second undertaker coming in a second lift, assuming that there were two working.
I wonder if the £30k could be spent on a body chute?
if the lifts even work, which is doubtfull
Funny :-) but not funny!
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