Students in Wales are living with damp and mould and disrepair and there is a clear link between poor housing and the student mental health crisis, says a joint report from the National Union of Students Wales and Shelter Cymru…. Read more »
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Students in Wales are living with damp and mould and disrepair and there is a clear link between poor housing and the student mental health crisis, says a joint report from the National Union of Students Wales and Shelter Cymru…. Read more »
Supply chain issues are having a major impact in Wales as providers of social and affordable housing report problems with materials supplies, price increases and delays to projects, according to a new survey. Tyfu Tai Cymru (part of CIH Cymru)… Read more »
Welsh Government has announced an additional £150m to retrofit social homes with new technologies and insulation to help curb carbon emissions. The funding will be part of the Optimised Retrofit Programme to assess what technologies work best in individual homes… Read more »
Ministers have called for ‘a decade of action’ on climate change to achieve a net zero Wales. First minister Mark Drakeford and climate change minister Julie James published Net Zero Wales, Welsh Government’s Second Carbon Budget, on Thursday covering the… Read more »
Low-income tenants are facing severe financial pressure just as landlords are being asked to deliver more. We fail to listen to tenants at our peril, say Keith Edwards and Tamsin Stirling. We’ve all felt how important home is during the… Read more »
Tenants think their landlords should concentrate on getting repairs right and improving existing homes, according to an opinion survey conducted by TPAS Cymru. The quarterly survey for Tenant Pulse found that many tenants are feeling dissatisfied, disengaged and want the… Read more »
An investigation into the homelessness review process in Wales has found evidence of ‘systemic maladministration’ by local authorities that leaves vulnerable people facing homelessness at risk of grave injustice. A report by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales says that… Read more »
New tax powers to incentivise developers to complete stalled sites and build more homes are being held up in Westminster, says finance minister Rebecca Evans. The vacant land tax was first proposed in 2017 as a way to stop landowners… Read more »
The housing sector in Wales is looking forward to the end of this working week – not because it signals the start of the weekend, but because it signals the start of something much bigger. From Friday, October 1, new… Read more »
The United Welsh Group is developing a factory in the heart of Caerphilly to build timber frame, low carbon homes. Due to open this autumn, the factory will manufacture high quality, sustainable timber frame structures complete with factory fitted insulation… Read more »
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