Jeremy Porteus, Housing LIN
Jeremy Porteus
Chief Executive
Housing LIN

Jeremy was formerly National Lead for Housing at the Department of Health responsible for the Extra Care Housing Fund and the Prevention Technology Grant programme.

After leaving the Department, he founded the independent Housing LIN (Learning and Improvement Network), bringing together over 20,000 housing, health and social care practitioners in England, Wales and Scotland to identify and showcase innovative housing and technology enabled solutions for an ageing population.The Housing LIN's free knowledge and information sharing activities, along with its consultancy business, provide market insight and intelligence on latest funding, research, policy and practice to inspire better housing and care choices.

Jeremy has been Inquiry Secretariat to several of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry reports, including on housing and dementia (2021). He is also author of the influential 'care ready' HAPPI reports and co-authored RIBA's publication: Age-Friendly Housing: Future design for older people.

Jeremy sat on the Government's Homes for 2030 Board and is on Innovate UK's Healthy Ageing Challenge Advisory Board. He is also acting-chair of the Housing & Ageing Alliance.