England faces a “hidden housing crisis” due to a lack of homes which meet the needs of the country’s ageing population, according to the RIBA.

In a new report the RIBA said that with a quarter of the country’s population being over 60 in five years’ time the failure to plan for the growing number of people living longer was putting enormous strain on public finances, due to what it called “the health and social care costs of inappropriate housing”.

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