We’ve Laid the Foundations
Guest blog by Helen Bevan-Jones, Equality & Diversity Advisor – Bron Afon Community Housing It’s hard to believe that we’re already planning for our next E&D Strategy. It only seems like yesterday (11 May 2016 in fact!) we were launching our current one, with our key guest, John Harris, Former Paralympian gold medal winner, and […]
Response to the Inside Housing Discrimination Survey
The findings of Inside Housing’s discrimination survey are not surprising but still make for a very painful reading. Whilst we don’t know how many people from Wales took part in the survey, it would be wrong to assume that the issues and experiences described in the report only happen elsewhere. They happen everywhere, and we […]
Co-production: “Oh, I’m already doing that”
Written by Jordan Brewer, Policy and Communications Officer – Cymorth Cymru The Tai Pawb Close to Home Conference had a lot to offer. Opportunities for learning, challenge & development. So much so that I found myself spoiled for choice when it came to choosing a morning workshop. I’m really glad I decided to go along […]
Close to Home: A Fresh Perspective
Written by Sarah Scotcher, Policy Officer – Community Housing Cymru A few times throughout the Tai Pawb Close to Home conference, held in Cardiff on 17th May, delegates remarked that the conversation around housing is changing. More and more, we’re seeing housing (and decent housing) as something that everyone should be able to access unconditionally, and […]
The Right to Housing in Wales
Shelter Cymru Campaigns Manager, Jennie Bibbings, gives her thoughts about the right to housing, following Tai Pawb’s Conference ‘Close to Home’… Here’s an interesting fact: did you know that the right to housing was first enshrined in Welsh legislation more than seven centuries ago? If you already knew that, give yourself a pat on the […]
Accessible Homes for the Future
Tai Pawb made the trip to Newtown right in the middle of Wales to discuss and present on Accessible Homes. We were very glad to have Ruth Coombs, Head of EHRC Wales as the headline speaker to share emerging findings from the Commissions UK Inquiry into Housing for Disabled People. One of the key findings […]
Project Shortlisted for 24Housing Diversity in Housing Award
The Open Doors project has been shortlisted for ‘Best Diversity Scheme’ at the inaugural 24Housing Diversity in Housing Awards. Open Doors is a two year Big Lottery funded project managed in partnership by Tai Pawb and the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). It engages and empowers landlords and tenants to reduce issues of inequality and discrimination in the […]
Linc Cymru Asset Management Team – Listening To Us
The Tenant Panel and staff of Linc Cymru spent a very interesting day together on Monday 22nd February. The task was to mark tenders submitted to Linc for the new Reactive Repairs Contract.
ICYMI: Race Inequality Seminar
We gathered an experienced and diverse group of speakers for our first event of 2018 to talk about race inequality in housing. This event should have been the final one of 2017, but the weather had other ideas. Luckily for us, the Orbit Business Centre in Merthyr Tydfil kindly allowed us to rearrange and we […]
Tom Murtha: Race and Housing – What have we learned?
What am I most proud of in my career? It is not bringing together and becoming chief executive of one of the leading housing and care groups in the sector. It is not helping to establish SHOUT, the campaign for social housing. It is not even being chair of North Wales Housing. What I am […]