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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Brexit and Welsh housing
Jules Birch asks what the EU referendum result will mean for housing and regeneration in Wales. Wales voted 52.5% to 47.5% to Leave, behind England on Brexit but out of step with Scotland and Northern Ireland. Five council areas went… Read more »
Regeneration without gentrification?
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 »
Making it happen: Housing Camp Cymru
Volunteer Jonathan Conway explains why he will be donning the florescent jacket for a second time, as a campmaker for Housing Camp Cymru. I got involved in Housing Camp Cymru in 2015 when a friend and colleague invited me to… Read more »
Olives, devolution and diversity
Devolution means housing policy is diverging across the UK. In a lecture for the CIH, Tamsin Stirling gives a Welsh perspective on what we can learn from each other. A former editor and regular WHQ contributor, Tamsin was asked by the… Read more »
Carl Sargeant back as housing minister
Carl Sargeant returns to the housing brief in the new Welsh Government as cabinet secretary for communities and children. The team for the new Welsh Government was announced by Carwyn Jones on Thursday afternoon after he was sworn in as… Read more »
Refugees welcome
Lyndon Puddy reflects on Torfaen’s experience of the Syrian Resettlement Programme. Torfaen council and the people of the Eastern Valley have a long and proud tradition of welcoming and supporting refugees and other vulnerable people in times of need. When the… Read more »
Election 2016 results
Labour won 29 seats an election that leaves it just short of a majority in the new Assembly. The story of the night was Leanne Wood’s victory in the Rhondda. The Plaid Cymru leader beat Labour’s Leighton Andrews in the only constituency… Read more »
What to do about poverty?
Housing is part of the sickness and part of the remedy, says Tamsin Stirling ahead of a plenary session on housing and tackling poverty on the final day of TAI. Working in housing, it is impossible to be insulated from debates… Read more »
TAI 2016 Day Two
WHQ’s coverage of the second day of TAI will be updated through the day on this live blog. Welsh infrastructure Kellie Beirne set out the ambitions for the Cardiff Capital Region, starting with ways to link physical and knowledge infrastructure. It’s not… Read more »