Anchor Hanover launches to provide housing for older people
Anchor Trust and Hanover Housing Association have merged to provide care and housing for older people, under the new company Anchor Hanover.
The new organisation comprises more than 60,000 homes across 1,700 nationwide locations, operating in more than 90% of local councils in England.
It now boasts more than 90,000 employees, who will seek to provide rented and leasehold retirement housing and care homes.
Anchor Trust and Hanover Housing Association have merged to provide care and housing for older people, under the new company Anchor Hanover.
The new organisation comprises more than 60,000 homes across 1,700 nationwide locations, operating in more than 90% of local councils in England.
It now boasts more than 90,000 employees, who will seek to provide rented and leasehold retirement housing and care homes.
Anchor Hanover will be led by chair Stuart Burgess, the former chair of Hanover Housing Association.
Burgess said: “More specialist housing and care will be needed going forwards, with new types of services. Anchor Hanover can offer more options, have a stronger voice with government and local councils, operate more efficiently and build more properties for older people.”
He said “ambitious plans” to grow the available services will be led by the needs of the older people, and could include social rented, shared ownership and market sale new homes.
Anchor Hanover chief executive Jane Ashcroft said: “In an ageing population, our housing, care and support is needed more than ever. Together we can provide a bigger range of housing and care options and build more new locations.”
Savills has estimated that some 1.2 million specialist retirement homes are required to meet the needs of an older population. There are currently 726,000 specialist homes in the UK, leaving it short by half a million and facing a potential crisis with an ageing population.
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