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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 »
Pobl Group and Linc Cymru have formally completed a merger process to brings together two of Wales’ leading registered social landlords, They say they will form a partnership that will significantly enhance the provision of social housing and care and… Read more »
Julie James has retained the housing brief within a reshaped portfolio in a Welsh Government reshuffle by new first minister Vaughan Gething. She becomes cabinet secretary for housing, local government and planning in the new administration with her former climate… Read more »
Trivallis has advised 40 households to immediately move out of their homes due to risk of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC). Survey work carried out by Trivallis on its properties in the Hirwaun area has identified issues with the roofs… Read more »
Lindsay Cordery-Bruce is leaving The Wallich to become the new chief executive of Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA). She took over as chief executive of The Wallich in January 2018 and will leave in the first week of April… Read more »
Finance minister Rebecca Evans has found £10 million in extra funding for social housing and homelessness prevention in the Welsh Government’s Final Budget for 2024/25. The minister said was able to make more changes than usual to the Draft Budget… Read more »
A Welsh Government funding shortfall is pushing homelessness workers into poverty, says a new survey. Homelessness and housing support providers have highlighted the impact of repeated Welsh Government funding freezes on the wages of vital workers in the sector in… 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 »
Hopes of an increase in housing support funding were dashed in a Draft Budget for 2024/25 that finance minister Rebecca Evans said left even the NHS and local councils facing a difficult year ahead. She said that Welsh ministers faced… Read more »
More than 70 per cent of vital services which help to prevent homelessness across Wales could be ‘reduced or lost’ if crucial Welsh Government funding is not increased, say campaigners. The warning comes from Cymorth Cymru, and Community Housing Cymru,… Read more »
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