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The winners of the 2024 Welsh Housing Awards were announced at a special ceremony in Cardiff last week. Organised by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), the awards recognise the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and individuals across… Read more »

The Autumn issue of WHQ published this week ranges far and wide across legislation, targets, the future of Welsh-speaking communities and the lessons of Grenfell. The law is our theme as we look forward to the ending homelessness legislation expected… Read more »

The Summer issue of WHQ is out now featuring devolution, data, damp and mould and much, much more. The issue is published in the wake of a Labour landslide at Westminster and Labour turmoil in Cardiff. Relations have already improved… Read more »

The Spring 2024 issue of WHQ is available now, featuring housing association mergers, the right to adequate housing, the first stock transfer in Wales 20 years on, criminalising homelessness, leasehold reform and much, much more. Merger mania seems to have… Read more »

In October the white paper set out the Welsh Government’s plans to make homelessness rare, brief and unrepeated. But its proposals for ending homelessness in Wales are out for consultation at a time when thousands of people are struggling to… Read more »

Following an extensive recruitment process, Cynon Taf Community Housing Group (CTCHG) has appointed Auriol Miller as its new chief executive. Working with executive search recruitment agency, Goodson Thomas, CTCHG received more than 60 expressions of interest in the role. Auriol… Read more »

Standards in general, and the Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) 2023 in particular, feature as the theme of the Autumn issue of WHQ published this week in English and in Welsh. The focus, inevitably, is in decarbonisation and affordable warmth,… Read more »

The new Summer issue of WHQ – published this week – marks a major milestone for the magazine. Our first fully bilingual issue is available in Welsh and English in both PDF and online edition format. With that very much… Read more »

The first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest and an award-winning former BBC journalist are among the line-up of speakers for Community Housing Cymru’s One Big conference in Cardiff next month. Tori James and Sarah Dickins will be speaking at… Read more »

New council homes, the role of the traditional housing officer and the future of the private rented sector in Wales all feature in the Spring issue of WHQ that will be published this week. Subscribers can also look forward to… Read more »