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Due to a change in personal circumstances one of the finalists, Cally McCarthy from Monmouthshire Housing, will be withdrawing from the RSC 2016 competition. However a new finalist has been selected by our judges from the applicants, who were of a… Read more »
The current social rent policy will continue to apply in Wales in 2016/17 after an announcement by communities and tackling poverty minister Lesley Griffiths. The decision follows a modelling exercise conducted to assess the impact of the 1% a year cut in rents… Read more »
The lecture by Dr Peter Williams celebrating WHQ’s 100th issue is now available to watch on Youtube. Peter looked back 25 years to when WHQ was first published in 1990 and forward 25 years to what the housing system might look… Read more »
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 »
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