Earlier this year CIH Cymru laid down a challenge for amateur snappers in the sector: help prove that social housing can be beautiful. Setting out to bust the myth that social housing is only available in the dreary, concrete block… Read more »
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Earlier this year CIH Cymru laid down a challenge for amateur snappers in the sector: help prove that social housing can be beautiful. Setting out to bust the myth that social housing is only available in the dreary, concrete block… Read more »
Welsh Government protected the Supporting People programme and increased Social Housing Grant in its Draft Budget for 2016/17. Housing organisations welcomed this good news in the wake of a UK Spending Review that saw significant reductions in departmental funding. There… Read more »
Kevin Howell is new director of CIH Cymru. Currently community regeneration manager at Newydd Housing Association, Kevin is a CIH member and has worked in the housing sector in Wales for more than 10 years and will take up his new role in the first… Read more »
Wales may be different but we are still exposed to market trends in a system that is now at breaking point. That was the message from Dr Peter Williams in The Welsh Housing Quarterly 25th Anniversary lecture. Peter (pictured right)… Read more »
What kind of future Wales can social housing organisations help create? Tamsin Stirling outlines her thinking. Tai Pawb asked me to contribute to its Creating Homes conference in October 2015 – it asked me to think about how social housing organisations have… Read more »
Housing escaped the deep cuts that everyone feared in a UK Spending Review dismissed as ‘smoke and mirrors’ by Welsh Government. Chancellor George Osborne announced a funding floor for Wales of 115% of comparable spending per head in England but… Read more »
A new registration and licensing scheme for private landlords and agents in Wales came into effect on Monday November 23. Here’s what’s happening. The key part of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 means that everyone who owns and rents out… Read more »
The two Rs dominated the opening of the Community Housing Cymru conference on Thursday as housing associations debated the implications for housing and the devolution settlement of recent events across the border. CHC chief executive Stuart Ropke called for urgent… Read more »
Legislation to improve the lives of the one million people in Wales who rent their home has passed in the Senedd. The Renting Homes (Wales) Bill will make it simpler and easier to rent a home, replacing various and complex… Read more »
Welsh housing associations are continuing to boost the economy and directly contributed more than £1bn in 2014/15, according to independent research. The findings are part of the latest Welsh Economy Research Unit (WERU) report, commissioned by Community Housing Cymru (CHC),… Read more »
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