CIH Cymru’s Big Question event on 7 November asked, “Are we creating the places of tomorrow?”. National Director, Matt Dicks, blogs for Welsh Housing Quarterly on the main discussion points that came out of the event. It certainly was a… Read more »
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Joint call for right to housing
Three leading Welsh housing organisations are calling for the right to housing to be recognised in Welsh law. Tai Pawb, CIH Cymru and Shelter Cymru launched a jointly-commissioned report looking at the positive impacts that incorporating the UN-enshrined right to… Read more »
Regulation: evidence suggests continual improvement
Matt Kennedy, policy and public affairs manager at CIH Cymru, takes a look at the evidence provided to the Public Accounts Committee as part of their inquiry into regulation and oversight of housing associations in Wales. Towards the end of… Read more »
Welcome to the housing party – cross party housing group update
Following the most recent meeting of the cross-party group on housing on 10 February, Matt Kennedy, policy and public affairs manager at CIH Cymru, looks at the challenges the group are looking at, as well as what’s coming up on… Read more »
New director for CIH Cymru
The new director of the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru will be Matt Dicks. He joins CIH with a breadth of knowledge of the Welsh policy landscape after 17 years working as a senior communicator at the heart of Welsh… Read more »
Rising Stars Cymru 2016 – new finalist announced
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 »
Social housing in front of the lens
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 »
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 »