The next Welsh Government should make home a foundation mission, says @mattydicks.bsky.social of @cihcymru.bsky.social whq.org.uk/2025/10/08/t...

High Court rules in favour of housing associations in electrical condition reports case whq.org.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Holiday let operators in Wales would be forced to get a license and meet strict safety rules under a draft ‘Airbnb law’ unveiled by the Welsh Government

Ten-year rent settlement will provide 'immediate certainty and stability' for social landlords and tenants whq.org.uk/2025/09/30/m...

Read our thoughts on the recent Welsh Government response to the White Paper on Housing Adequacy www.taipawb.org/news-story/b...

New issue of WHQ out now, featuring: - Can the Homelessness Bill deliver? - Lee Waters on how to improve affordable housing supply - The case for a national independent tenant voice - Caring for frontline staff whq.org.uk/2025/07/25/s...

How is Wales doing on building safety remediation? Work not yet started on 70% of buildings for which major developers are responsible and completed on only 4 out of 161 Important new blog from @senedd.wales research research.senedd.wales/research-art...

New Data📉Statistics for March 25 show the numbers in temporary accommodation have slightly decreased to 10,800, including 2,584 children. However, rough sleeping in Wales has increased to 130 people. The figures are far too high: www.gov.wales/homelessness...

Pobl and Linc choose new name for merged group whq.org.uk/2025/06/10/p...

⌛ Last chance to join our team! ✅ Communications Advisor ✅ Public Affairs and Policy Advisor ✅ External Affairs Assistant 🗓 Deadline: 5pm Tuesday 17.6.2025 📍 Remote (UK) 👉 chcymru.org.uk/about-us/abo...

We’re looking for a Head of Policy & Campaigns at Platfform - if you connect with our purpose, have a passion for social justice & can show us how you have affected successful change through policy and campaigns work then we’d love to hear from you #PublicAffairs #Politics #Campaigns #SocialJustice

👋 Cymorth Cymru is now on Bluesky – if you follow us on other platforms we’re looking forward to carrying on the conversation. If this is the first time you’ve heard of us, here is a little about what we do... ⬇️

Taskforce publishes recommendations to speed up delivery of affordable housing in Wales whq.org.uk/2025/05/15/a...

With a year to go of this Senedd term, WHQ asked a range of different contributors for their views on Welsh Government’s target of 20,000 new low carbon social homes. Can it be met? What more can be done? And what should come next? whq.org.uk/the-magazine...

'If we want to be a country where aspiration for high quality homes... is to be achieved, we need to start today, right now, don’t delay, and don’t stop for anything! No more Great Excuse' Delighted to have John Keegan writing in this issue of WHQ whq.org.uk/the-magazine...

New issue of WHQ just published featuring supply and planning, the 20k homes target, homelessness, waiting lists and much, much more whq.org.uk/2025/04/24/s...

Energy efficiency drive for fuel poor households won't be finished till 2160 at current rate, says Senedd committee whq.org.uk/2025/04/07/e...

As new price rise announced, polling by National Energy Action reveals that more than half of people in Wales expect to ration energy in next few months whq.org.uk/2025/02/25/e...

The Townhill Estate, designed by Borough Architect Ernest Morgan for Swansea Council, under the 1919 Housing Act (early photo courtesy of Swansea Museum Collection): Dewi Terrace, then and now, designed in echelon formation to cope with the area's steep terrain. (Featured in my '100 Estates' book.)

Your views really do matter so please take five to complete the survey and let @cihcymru.bsky.social know what key pressures, challenges and opportunities you have in your role.

Great to see Welsh Government committing to looking again at how #communityledhousing is financed. Expanding the finance options available to aspiring community-led developers is essential to scaling up the sector here research.senedd.wales/research-art...

A budget deal between Welsh Labour and Lib Dem Jane Dodds is close, BBC Wales understands www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

LHA freeze puts families at increased risk of homelessness, warns @sheltercymru.bsky.social, as @ippr.bsky.social says Wales will be worst hit by freeze's postcode lottery whq.org.uk/2025/02/06/s...

The Welsh Gov rejected a key recommendation in the @senedd.wales Local Gov & Housing Committee inquiry on social housing supply. In this article, Chair John Griffiths MS explains why the Committee believes a Welsh development corporation would deliver more social homes: tinyurl.com/ytf5hrrs

📞 🚨 Calling all tenants in Wales! We're excited to launch our 5th Annual #TenantPulse Survey on #NetZero. This year, we’re focusing on important topics like Energy Performance Certificates & the affordability of heating your home. #YourHomeYourVoice ⭐ Make your voice heard here: bit.ly/3CC0tol

The Winter issue of WHQ is out now, with health, housing and homelessness as its theme. Also featuring the High Court rents case, Tai ar y Cyd, the cost of temporary accommodation, refugee housing and much, much more whq.org.uk/2025/01/27/n...

Draft Budget boost for housing as Welsh Government increases Social Housing Grant, TACP and Housing Support Grant whq.org.uk/2024/12/10/d...

A new platform calls for an introduction! We are a Welsh charity promoting Equality & Social Justice in Housing. Too many people in Wales don’t have somewhere to live in peace and dignity. Too many people face systemic disadvantage in accessing suitable homes. We are determined to change that.

👉👉 Our response to new @seneddwales.bsky.social committee report on Welsh social housing supply “The inquiry process, and this report, have been an important moment for us to emphasise the importance of social homes in addressing the housing crisis... 🧵 (1/4)

Local Government and Housing Committee calls for investment and financing boost to social housing whq.org.uk/2024/11/20/s...

“The UK and Welsh governments have ambitious plans for addressing the housing crisis, with social housing at the centre. But we know these ambitions are threatened by ongoing public funding constraints that make delivery ever more challenging... (1/3)

This year, Citizens Advice have helped almost 29,000 people in Wales with an issue related to housing affordability. Our data shows that average rent costs for our debt clients have risen by 22% since the start of 2019. Our latest data dashboard is LIVE: public.flourish.studio/story/1703447/

Welsh government have confirmed to me that yes, Eluned Morgan, first minister of Wales and Welsh Labour leader, has joined Bluesky

Lee Waters to lead Affordable Homes Task Force whq.org.uk/2024/11/07/l...

Cadwyn joins Newydd in Cadarn Housing Group whq.org.uk/2024/11/05/c...

Mae rhifyn yr Hydref o WHQ allan yn awr yn cynnwys: - Ffyrdd y gall y Llywodraeth gyrraedd ei nod o 20k o dai cymdeithasol - Cwestiynau y dylai landlordiaid eu gofyn yn sgil adroddiad ymchwiliad Grenfell - Rhan tai mewn cadw’r Gymraeg i ffynnu 1/3 whq.org.uk/the-magazine...

The Autumn issue of WHQ is out now featuring: - Options for Welsh Govt to meet its 20k social homes target - Questions landlords should be asking after the Grenfell inquiry report - Housing's role in keeping Cymraeg thriving 1/2 whq.org.uk/the-magazine...

️🗣️ The government risks abandoning millions of low-income private renters at the Budget. Our new research shows that by 2029, 80,000 people will be pulled into very deep poverty unless the Government unfreezes Local Housing Allowance (LHA). (1/4)

The new issue of WHQ will be published this week featuring legislation and housing, the 20,000 social home target, the future of Welsh-speaking communities and lessons from the Grenfell inquiry whq.org.uk/2024/10/16/l...