Here’s a sneak preview of the new issue of Welsh Housing Quarterly that will be published and online this week. The theme for our Winter 2022 issue is supply and we have good news and bad news for affordable housing…. Read more »
Local government
Councils praise pandemic response but warn of homelessness problems ahead
Local authorities have praised Welsh Government’s homelessness response to the pandemic but are expecting a increase in people seeking homelessness support as evictions and repossessions rise and cuts to Universal Credit bite. The findings come from the Homelessness Monitor Wales… Read more »
Blog: Matt Dicks rounds up the BIG Question 2019
CIH Cymru’s Big Question event on 7 November asked, “Are we creating the places of tomorrow?”. National Director, Matt Dicks, blogs for Welsh Housing Quarterly on the main discussion points that came out of the event. It certainly was a… Read more »
Deputy minister opens extra care scheme
Hannah Blythyn AM, deputy minister for housing and local government, officially opened Llys Raddington extra care housing scheme – a new independent living option in Flint, North Wales. The scheme, owned by ClwydAlyn Housing, and managed in partnership with Flintshire… Read more »
Plan to boost council house building
CIH Cymru is partnering with Welsh Government to increase the scale of council house building. The plan follows a key recommendation of the independent affordable housing supply in Wales focused on the need to support local authorities in directly delivering… Read more »
Regulation warning for Welsh Government
Current arrangements for the regulation of housing in Wales are ‘unsustainable’ and risk being compromised by a lack of resources. That is the blunt warning to Welsh Government in a performance report just published by the Regulatory Board for Wales… Read more »
Affordable housing review – Local authorities
Following the abolition of the Right to Buy and the removal of the borrowing cap, the panel looked at what was needed to ‘support ambitious local authorities to build at place scale’ and how to maximise the use of borrowing… Read more »