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Communities and children secretary Carl Sargeant has announced a new programme to deliver innovative models of housing to help increase the number of homes built in Wales. The programme, which will initially be funded by £20m over the next two… Read more »
Matt Kennedy, policy and public affairs manager at CIH Cymru, takes a look at the evidence provided to the Public Accounts Committee as part of their inquiry into regulation and oversight of housing associations in Wales. Towards the end of… Read more »
First Scotland, now England. The campaign to stop letting agents charging fees to tenants in Wales continues, says Liz Silversmith of Let Down in Wales. There have been some curious developments in the Assembly recently on whether Wales should ban letting agency fees…. Read more »
The Winter issue of WHQ will be with readers and online soon. Here’s a sneak preview. Our cover feature looks at implementation of two of the major provisions of the first Welsh Housing Act. Two months after the deadline for… Read more »
Following the most recent meeting of the cross-party group on housing on 10 February, Matt Kennedy, policy and public affairs manager at CIH Cymru, looks at the challenges the group are looking at, as well as what’s coming up on… Read more »
The new director of the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru will be Matt Dicks. He joins CIH with a breadth of knowledge of the Welsh policy landscape after 17 years working as a senior communicator at the heart of Welsh… Read more »
Projects working to improve the lives of vulnerable people in Wales have been honoured at the 2016 Promoting Independence Awards. Organised by Cymorth Cymru, this is the 10th year of awards that hail the success of organisations working with maginalised and… Read more »
Welsh Government has announced an extra £30m for social housing this year as it prepares to sign a Housing Supply Delivery Pact with housing associations and local authorities. The extra money takes the Social Housing Grant (SHG) programme budget to… Read more »
Paul Langley blogs on the far-reaching implications of the UK government’s latest announcement on the LHA and social housing. The announcement that Local Housing Allowance (LHA) will apply to all social housing tenants on Universal Credit and new or re-let… Read more »
Community Housing Cymru (CHC) has criticised a Westminster government decision that means more social housing tenants will see their housing benefit capped at local housing allowance (LHA) rates. In a written statement on the policy for general needs housing, work… Read more »
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