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Is the Draft Wales Bill the next step for devolution or a step back? Tamsin Stirling blogs on criticisms of the legislation and the implications for housing. Just before Christmas I attended a very interesting briefing from the Wales Governance… Read more »
Landmark legislation setting a new framework for renting homes in Wales has received Royal Assent. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 is the second piece of ‘made in Wales’ housing legislation following the Housing (Wales) Act 2014. The new Act… Read more »
The January issue of WHQ is hot off the presses featuring the 2016 Assembly election, the birth of a mutual in Merthyr, the story of Welsh housing and much, much more. The cover feature previews the role of housing and… Read more »
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 »
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