Our voices: LGBT+ later life housing
demand in London

THE RESEARCH

Tonic, Stonewall Housing and Opening Doors London (ODL) jointly carried out this research to better understand the housing, care and support requirements of older LGBT+ people in London. We aimed to capture ‘the voice of the demand’ of older LGBT+ people.

Our common ambition is to see that older LGBT+ people, whatever their history and background, are able to make choices about their housing, care and support from a range of safe and appropriate options.

We were supported in our research steering group by Professor Andrew King of the University of Surrey, and Dr Sait Bayrakdar of King’s College London, along with Julia Shelley, author of the original Building Safe Choices report in 2016.

We are extremely grateful for the support of funding from Mayor of London, the Tudor Trust and Commonweal Housing, without whom this work could not have been done.