Will Atkinson hails progress so far but the campaign continues for further changes. In February, we launched a joint campaign with our sister housing federations in the rest of the UK to reform the broken Universal Credit (UC) system to… Read more »
Archive for: ‘Community Housing Cymru’
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 »
CHC appoints new director of policy
Community Housing Cymru (CHC) has appointed Clarissa Corbisiero-Peters as its new director of policy. She is currently head of policy at the National Housing Federation, the English equivalent of CHC. In this role, she works with housing associations to influence government and other key… Read more »
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 »
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 »