The Housing Corporation has launched an investment policy designed to give elderly people greater choice over their accommodation.
The policy, launched this week, sets out how the corporation will invest in affordable housing and services to give the elderly more choice and control.

It also pledges to address the consequences of forecasts that there will be 1.7 million older people from ethnic communities in the UK by 2030.

A three-year corporate strategy will be released after consultation with housing associations, tenants and the government’s housing and older people development group. Strategies for investing in housing for older people may be introduced.

Corporation chair Baroness Dean said: “I’m keen to see housing help to address the government’s targets on health. There is clearly much more we can do and we need to learn from the good practice and forward thinking that already exists in the sector.”