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 »
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Minister confirms social rent formula will continue
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 »
Watch the WHQ 100 lecture
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 »
The Draft Budget and Welsh housing
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 »
CIH Cymru appoints new director
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 »
Taking the Long View: the WHQ 100 lecture
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 »
Beyond equality
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 »
Spending Review implications for Wales
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 »
Rent Smart Wales launched
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 »
Rents, reclassification and a ‘test of devolution’
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 »