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The first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest and an award-winning former BBC journalist are among the line-up of speakers for Community Housing Cymru’s One Big conference in Cardiff next month. Tori James and Sarah Dickins will be speaking at… Read more »
Welsh Government has launched its long-awaited consultation on the right to adequate housing and fair rents. A green paper published on Tuesday (March 6) seeks views and evidence on rents, landlord and tenant behaviour, affordability and how to improve the… Read more »
New council homes, the role of the traditional housing officer and the future of the private rented sector in Wales all feature in the Spring issue of WHQ that will be published this week. Subscribers can also look forward to… Read more »
Climate change minister Julie James has delivered her latest update on what she called an ‘ambitious’ building safety programme that would make residents feel ‘safe and secure in their homes’. Delivering the update in the Senedd on Tuesday, she confirmed… Read more »
Trivallis has formed a new executive leadership team, with Duncan Forbes as CEO, Keiron Montague as executive director of communities and (from May) Lisa Pinney as executive director of resources. Duncan Forbes joined Trivallis in July 2022, as an interim chief… Read more »
A coalition of Welsh housing organisations is calling on the Westminster Government to end the freeze in Local Housing Allowance in next week’s Spring Budget. The call from Homes for All Cymru comes as new research from the Bevan Foundation… Read more »
Shelter Cymru is calling on Welsh Government to create a new scheme to rescue the homes of people struggling to afford their mortgage payments because of the cost of living crisis. The people and homes charity says a mortgage rescue… Read more »
The new issue of WHQ out this week takes repairs and maintenance as its main theme and has damp and mould as its sad but inevitable starting point. The tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak and the inquest verdict in… Read more »
Less than half of tenants in Wales believe their home is well-maintained, energy efficient and free from damp and mould. Those are the worrying findings from TPAS Cymru’s second Annual All Wales Survey on Tenant Participation published today (Wednesday). The… Read more »
Finance minister Rebecca Evans has announced Draft Budget plans that she says will protect public services and the most vulnerable. But there was disappointment across the housing sector over spending lines that have failed to keep pace with inflation since… Read more »
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