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Housing Provision in Wales

Selina Moyo/, Policy Officer /, CHCymru

• Influence, connect, support and inform our members
• Encourage and facilitate the provision, construction,

improvement and management of low cost housing

• Provide services, education, training, information, advice

and support to our members

Our members

• Victorian/Edwardian times up to 1918
• End of WW1 and the ‘Homes fit for heroes’

campaign

• Destruction of thousands of houses during WW2
• Peak in house building in the 1960s
• 1980s economic boom and bust times

Developments over the decades

Housing Need

• Estimates are that we need approximately 8 700

new homes per year

• Building rates have been declining over the years
• Councils in Wales have not built homes for years

and the Right to buy has reduced affordable homes

• Major demographic changes among our

population

• Availability and cost of viable land
• Unpredictability and inconsistency in the

planning process

• NIMBYs
• Problems on site with utilities companies
• Skills shortages in the construction industry

Challenges in providing affordable, adequate housing

The future

• Increased house building across different tenures
• Use of modern methods of construction
• Place housing at the heart of integrated health

and social care

• Continue to create prosperous places where

people want to live

Diolch. Thanks.

Selina Moyo

Policy Officer/, Community Housing Cymru chcymru.org.uk Twitter: @chcymru | @selina_CHC