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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 »
People and projects across Wales are celebrating their triumphs in this year’s annual Welsh Housing Awards. More than 400 housing professionals gathered in Cardiff on Friday evening at the event where the winners were revealed and to celebrate best practice… Read more »
Figures that emerged during one of the first legal cases brought under the Housing (Wales) Act raise serious questions about the new system of landlord registration, says Steffan Evans. Friday November 5th saw one of the first legal cases brought before… Read more »
The overall benefit cap will hit ten times more families in Wales when it starts to be reduced from November 7, according to new research by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). The new £20,000 cap will hit 5,844 families… Read more »
Housing associations in Wales have helped the previous Welsh Government smash its target of building 10,000 affordable homes, says Edwina O’Hart. In the five years up to this May’s election, 11,508 properties were constructed across Wales – and 94 per… Read more »
Welsh Government has protected funding for Supporting People and homelessness prevention in its draft budget for next year. More good news came with a boost for the affordable housing budget, with a capital allocation of £1.36bn over the next four… Read more »
Health and housing, Brexit and reclassification of housing associations all feature in the Autumn issue of Welsh Housing Quarterly – plus much more besides. Published this week, the cover feature on health and housing is introduced by NHS Wales chief… Read more »
More than 500 children were made homeless last year after their families were evicted from social housing, according to a report by Shelter Cymru. The homelessness charity estimates that social landlords evicted 914 households in 2015/16. Almost a third of… Read more »
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