{"id":1781,"date":"2021-09-10T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:00:12","slug":"rightsizing-approach-pioneered-in-housing-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/rightsizing-approach-pioneered-in-housing-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rightsizing&#8221; approach pioneered in Housing For All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an article published on the 5th September 2021, <em>The Examiner<\/em> explores what was originally called &#8216;downsizing&#8217; and has now been rebranded in Housing for All as \u2018rightsizing\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approach has been pioneered by Cork City Council through schemes like the award-winning 30-unit Arus Mhuire development in Blackrock, which offers older people the opportunity to move out of larger homes into more age appropriate accommodation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scheme allows people aged 60 or over who own their private house, or who are existing local authority tenants, to apply to their local authority for a tenancy in one of its downsizing developments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many more such schemes are planned under the government\u2019s new housing strategy, with a pledge to develop a national policy on rightsizing and to explore options to support and incentivise rightsizing on a voluntary basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the full article on <a href=\"http:\/\/irishexaminer.com\/news\/munster\/arid-40372913.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Irish Examiner website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published on the 5th September 2021, The Examiner explores what was originally called &#8216;downsizing&#8217; and has now been rebranded in Housing for All as \u2018rightsizing\u2019. The approach &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9998,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}