Launch of the Roadmap – The Right to Adequate Housing in Wales #BacktheBill
We’re kickstarting the next phase of our campaign for the right to a good home in Wales. So, today, alongside partners CIH Cymru and Shelter Cymru, we launch our Road Map! Our Road Map to the right to adequate housing will show the difference it could make in Wales. Rather than presenting this as having […]
Tai Pawb Response to Welsh Government White Paper on Homelessness
Tai Pawb welcome the proposals and support the ambition in the Welsh Government White Paper to end homelessness in Wales. We were proud that our research which captured experiences of homelessness of people with protected characteristics was featured so heavily in the White Paper, influencing some of the recommendations. To be successful, it’s essential that […]
Anti-Racist Wales Social Housing Baseline Survey: Key Findings
Today, we have published the results of the social housing sector baseline survey which aimed to gather data in areas including staff diversity, the development of organisational anti-racism plans and take-up of training. In June 2022 Welsh Government published its Anti-racist Wales Action Plan (ARWAP), setting out the actions it will take to make […]
Tai Pawb and TPAS Cymru welcome change to flooring provision in social housing quality standards
In the revised Welsh Housing Quality Standards (WHQS) – due to be launched by the end of October – the framework outlines that “at change of tenancy, all habitable rooms… located within the home should have suitable floor coverings”. Under the existing framework – which has been in place since 2002 – there has been […]
Right to housing to feature as ‘due regard’ duty in new bill
Tai Pawb, together with its partners CIH Cymru, Shelter Cymru and Dr Simon Hoffman (Swansea University) has welcomed a government commitment to partly introduce ‘right to adequate housing’ into Welsh law. Yesterday (November 19), Minister for Housing and Local Government, Julie James, confirmed to Assembly Members that the right to adequate housing will feature as […]
Tai Pawb reacts to Minister’s response on Affordable Housing Review
The Minister for Housing and Local Government, Julie James AM, has responded formally to the recommendations of the Independent Review of Affordable Housing Supply. Reacting to the Minister’s response, Tai Pawb’s director, Alicja Zalesinska, said: “Tai Pawb is broadly pleased that the Minister has set out an ambitious programme for affordable housing in accepting all-but-one […]
What Happens to your EU National Tenants?
The UK Government intends to leave the EU on 29 March 2019, but how will this affect your tenants from the EU? In theory, the options are fairly straightforward, though of course things will become trickier for those with more complicated circumstances. According to the UK Government’s ‘EU Settlement Scheme: Statement of Intent‘: EU citizens […]
GDPR, Equality Data and Housing: A Quick Guide
It’s been difficult lately to attend a meeting or event and not hear those four little letters – G D P R at some point during the day. As our members work out what the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) means for them across a range of their functions, some have started asking us how […]
Housing and support organisations join forces and call on AMs to back funding solution
Ten national housing and support organisations have joined forces to propose a funding solution which aims to safeguard homelessness and housing-related support services for over 60,000 of the most vulnerable people in Wales. The Housing Matters report outlines the case for a new Homelessness and Housing-Related Support Grant, which has been backed by Cymorth Cymru, […]
‘Windrush Generation’ Information
People who arrived as children from Commonwealth Countries between nineteen-forty-eight and the early seventies are being referred to as the ‘Windrush Generation’. Due to the impact of conditions in the last two Immigration Acts in 2014 and 2016, some people from this generation are unable to access employment, healthcare and benefits, the latter specifically when […]