Older people need a wider choice of accommodation if the government’s strategy to encourage over-55s to move into smaller homes is to succeed.

This is the conclusion of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) study, which also found that the government should offer inducements to housing providers to create attractive alternatives.JRF said there are currently 7.3m households in England containing no-one under 55 living in either mainstream (93%) or specialist housing (7%). About 3% of these households move per…