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John Puzey will stand down as the director of Shelter Cymru this Autumn after over 30 years at the helm of Wales’ leading independent housing and homelessness charity. Among tributes paid to him, First Minister Mark Drakeford said he had… Read more »
The people of Wales are being urged to seek help now if they’re experiencing housing issues. That’s the message in a new digital campaign on housing advice launched today (Saturday). Developed with Shelter Cymru, the campaign will direct people to… Read more »
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 »
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 »
More than 500 children were made homeless last year after their families were evicted from social housing, according to a report by Shelter Cymru. The homelessness charity estimates that social landlords evicted 914 households in 2015/16. Almost a third of… Read more »
So how is Wales doing on homelessness? Statistics released this week show what happened in the first year of the new system. Here are some of the highlights. The homelessness provisions by the Housing Act (Wales) 2014, including a legal… 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 »
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