The June 2016 edition of WHQ was packed as usual with useful articles. We’ve rounded up ten websites that are mentioned or included in the magazine to make it easy for you to check out those tips. The page in… Read more »
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The June 2016 edition of WHQ was packed as usual with useful articles. We’ve rounded up ten websites that are mentioned or included in the magazine to make it easy for you to check out those tips. The page in… Read more »
Steve Clarke looks at the issues raised by David Cameron’s estate regeneration programme in England and the potential implications for Wales. Two terms have become increasingly important to tenants recently, regeneration and gentrification. Regeneration is a term that means different… Read more »
Housing faces a rapidly changing policy environment in Wales and England. Judy Wayne blogs on the debate at the recent annual Altair-Devonshires seminar in Cardiff. The seminar attracted senior executives and non-executives from across Wales. It was a full afternoon… Read more »
Finance minister Jane Hutt has announced an extra £20 million in social housing grant for projects across Wales. The capital funding boost will help build an extra 230 affordable homes across the country and support around 500 jobs. It was… Read more »
Landmark legislation setting a new framework for renting homes in Wales has received Royal Assent. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 is the second piece of ‘made in Wales’ housing legislation following the Housing (Wales) Act 2014. The new Act… Read more »
The January issue of WHQ is hot off the presses featuring the 2016 Assembly election, the birth of a mutual in Merthyr, the story of Welsh housing and much, much more. The cover feature previews the role of housing and… Read more »
The current social rent policy will continue to apply in Wales in 2016/17 after an announcement by communities and tackling poverty minister Lesley Griffiths. The decision follows a modelling exercise conducted to assess the impact of the 1% a year cut in rents… Read more »
Earlier this year CIH Cymru laid down a challenge for amateur snappers in the sector: help prove that social housing can be beautiful. Setting out to bust the myth that social housing is only available in the dreary, concrete block… Read more »
Welsh Government protected the Supporting People programme and increased Social Housing Grant in its Draft Budget for 2016/17. Housing organisations welcomed this good news in the wake of a UK Spending Review that saw significant reductions in departmental funding. There… Read more »
What kind of future Wales can social housing organisations help create? Tamsin Stirling outlines her thinking. Tai Pawb asked me to contribute to its Creating Homes conference in October 2015 – it asked me to think about how social housing organisations have… Read more »
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