Wales needs significantly more new homes than previously thought, according to new estimates of housing need released by the Welsh Government. The 2025-based estimates published on Thursday suggest a ...

The Senedd has given Stage 4 approval to landmark homelessness legislation that campaigners say has the potential to transform how Wales prevents and tackles homelessness. The Homelessness and Social ...

The Welsh Government has promised to bring forward new rights for leaseholders whose homes are undergoing building safety remediation as part of the Building Safety Bill. During Stage 2 scrutiny of th...

Housing secretary Jayne Bryant has announced an an indicative £50 million for the Transitional Accommodation Capital Programme (TACP) enabling the scheme to re-open for 2026/27. The money comes from t...

With perhaps the most consequential election in Wales since devolution little more than three months away, the Winter issue of WHQ looks in depth at the prospects for the next Welsh Government. We hea...

Welsh Housing Quarterly is looking for a new editor to take the helm of the magazine from next year. WHQ is the only independent housing and regeneration digital magazine for and about Wales.  It is, ...

The Welsh Government is set to fall short of its target of 20,000 affordable homes in this Senedd term but expects to meet it by November 2026. Official statistics published on Thursday show that 3,53...

Myths about migrants and social housing must be challenged, says John Perry. The myth that social housing is going to migrants is an old one. I recall CIH preparing a report for the Local Government A...

This Autumn issue of WHQ has just been published, featuring building safety, misinformation, temporary accommodation, affordability and much, much more. Building safety is our primary theme. We have t...

Wales goes to the polls in May next year to choose the next Welsh government, in addition 2026 will also mark the 80th anniversary of the passing of the National Health Service Act (1946). I am remind...

The High Court has ruled in favour of housing associations in a case with millions of pounds in rental payments potentially at stake. The judgment came in the second stage of a test case brought in th...

Chris Haines, ICNN Senedd reporter 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. Finance sec...

Housing secretary Jayne Bryant has approved a ten-year rent standard for social that she said would provide ‘immediate certainty and stability for social landlords and tenants across Wales’. The Welsh...

The campaign, comprising of Tai Pawb, CIH Cymru and Shelter Cymru, notes the recent publication of the responses to the White Paper consultation on Housing adequacy in Wales including Welsh Government...

Homelessness is the key theme of the new edition of WHQ, alongside the Affordable Housing Taskforce, a new voice for tenants, decarbonisation and much, much more. The introduction of the Homelessness ...

It’s been more than eight years since the fire at Grenfell that killed 72 people. Today, there are still many hundreds of people in Wales living in buildings with unresolved safety issues, many of who...

Data on persons placed into temporary accommodation and rough sleepers for March 2025.

The new housing association formed through the merger of Pobl Group and Linc Cymru in April 2024 will be called Codi Group. Codi is the Welsh word for ‘Rise’ and the name recognises the deep-rooted We...

If like us, you are passionate about addressing injustice and making a difference to the lives of the people in Wales then you could be our next Head of Policy and Campaigns. This is an exciting time...

A group of experts has urged Welsh Government to follow a series of recommendations to improve the delivery of affordable housing. The Affordable Homes Taskforce was set up by housing secretary Jayne ...

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 d...

Tackling the housing supply crisis requires a coherent vision for the future and a willingness to act across planning, regulation, training and construction, says John Keegan. I have had a lot of time...

Supply and planning are the main focus of the new edition of WHQ alongside homelessness, social housing waiting lists and all our regular updates and features. With a year to go to meet the Welsh Gove...

Welsh Government’s energy efficiency rollout won’t be finished until the year 2160 at the current rate of progress, according to a new report by a Senedd Committee. The Equality and Social Justice Com...

More than half of adults in Wales expect to ration energy in the next few months following the latest price rise, according to polling by National Energy Action. Energy bills are set for a third succe...

Wales is in the midst of a housing crisis and increasing the supply of social housing is essential to address it, according to the Senedd’s Local Government and Housing Committee.

Sources say Welsh Labour and Lib Dem Jane Dodds close to agreeing a deal on the Welsh budget.

Families in Wales face an increased risk of homelessness following the UK Government decision to freeze housing benefit levels for private renters. That’s the warning from Shelter Cymru as the governm...

Welsh Government should look again at the case for a national development corporation, says John Griffiths MS. When I spoke at the Community Housing Cymru conference in November to launch our report o...

Y Pumed Llawr - The Fifth Floor · Episode

The Winter issue of WHQ is published this week featuring health and housing, a new collaboration on affordable housing supply, the High Court ruling on electrical condition reports and much, much more...

Extra funding for new social housing and housing support feature in the Welsh Government’s Draft Budget for 2025/26. Finance secretary Mark Drakeford revealed details what he said would be ‘a good Bud...

An influential Senedd committee has called for greater investment in social housing and the creation of a national development corporation to speed up housebuilding by buying land and planning housing...

A Flourish story by Citizens Advice Cymru

Housing secretary Jayne Bryant has appointed Lee Waters MS to lead the Affordable Homes Task Force. In a written statement to the Senedd she said: ‘The delivery of more homes is, and must remain, inex...

Cadwyn Housing Association has officially joined the Cadarn Housing Group [previously called Newydd Group] as a sister organisation to Newydd Housing Association. Both Newydd and Cadwyn will now opera...

The law in action Wales has an enviable record of introducing ground-breaking legislation on housing and homelessness and more is on the way soon. This special issue of WHQ looks forwards to the endin...

The law in action Wales has an enviable record of introducing ground-breaking legislation on housing and homelessness and more is on the way soon. This special issue of WHQ looks forwards to the endin...

The Autumn issue of WHQ published this week ranges far and wide across legislation, targets, the future of Welsh-speaking communities and the lessons of Grenfell. The law is our theme as we look forwa...