Housing

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The Welsh Government's latest press releases and Cabinet statements on this brief.

1. Cabinet statement, 28 October 2026

   Social Rent Uplift for 2027-28

   Siân Gwenllian MS, Cabinet Minister for Local Government, Housing & Planning

The latest headlines on this brief, linking to each outlet's story.

• Pembrokeshire social housing register reopens but property adverts remain suspended

  Western Telegraph, 30 October 2026

• Softening of rules restricting social housing to Pembrokeshire locals

  Western Telegraph, 27 October 2026

• Trial date set for man accused of murdering housing association worker

  Nation.Cymru, 26 October 2026

• Man charged with murder over death of housing association worker

  Nation.Cymru, 22 October 2026

Statements, debates and legislation in Plenary on this brief, newest first. Oral question sessions are counted in the contributions below.

1. 10 February 2026Legislation

   Stage 4 of the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill

   Debate

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer9 contributions

2. 3 February 2026Legislation

   Stage 3 of the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill

   Debate

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd1 contribution

3. 27 January 2026Legislation

   Motion to vary the order of consideration of Stage 3 amendments to the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd4 contributions

4. 27 February 2024Legislation

   Statutory Instrument Consent Memorandum—The Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd12 contributions

5. 28 March 2023Legislation

   Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd20 contributions

6. 28 February 2023Legislation

   Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd12 contributions

7. 17 January 2023Legislation

   Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer1 contribution

8. 12 July 2022Legislation

   Fundamental Provisions) Regulations 2022, The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12) Regulations 2022 and The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022

   , 8. & 9. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Housing Association Tenancies

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer16 contributions

Votes are tagged from their own titles and the agenda item they were held under.

Ministers' meetings with outside organisations and their engagements on this brief, from the register the Welsh Government publishes every three months. 1 since the 2026 election:

1. 27 July 2026

   David Ward and John Lovell re: Unnos

   Meeting, Cabinet Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning

Source: Welsh Government, ministerial meetings and engagements. The register is published three months or more after the meetings it lists.

• 39% of Welsh adults said housing would be very important to their vote.

Ipsos asked 747 Welsh adults aged 16+ between 2 April 2026 and 8 April 2026, before the 2026 Senedd election. People could choose as many issues as they liked. More on public opinion.

80 written questions to the Welsh Government on this brief in the Sixth Senedd, 79 answered so far. The latest:

1. Siân GwenllianPlaid10 February 2026

   Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update regarding the inclusion of data on cases of damp and damage in the social landlord regulation survey?

   To the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government. Answered 16 February 2026

2. Janet Finch-SaundersConservative4 February 2026

   How many new social homes have been completed over the past two years in Aberconwy?

   To the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government. Answered 10 February 2026

3. Siân GwenllianPlaid19 November 2025

   Will the Cabinet Secretary confirm how many of the 2,300 homes constructed through the support of the Development Bank for Wales, as set out in the Written Statement on 18 November 2025, were social homes?

   To the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government. Answered 1 December 2025

4. Darren MillarConservative3 November 2025

   Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on work being done to address the barriers to social housing faced by veterans in Wales as a result of local connection criteria?

   To the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government. Answered 13 November 2025

5. Siân GwenllianPlaid27 August 2025

   Further to WQ97116, what is the Cabinet Secretary's understanding of the reasoning for limiting the change to England only, and what effects could the policy have on compulsory land purchase in Wales including the feasibility of doing so for the purposes of developing more social housing?

   To the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning. Answered 29 August 2025

All 80 written questions on this brief

No petitions on this brief opened in the Sixth Senedd.

Committee sessions where this brief was on the agenda, newest first.

1. 5 February 2026Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session 3

   Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply

   119 contributions

2. 21 January 2026Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session 2

   Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply

   127 contributions

3. 21 January 2026Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session 1

   Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply

   100 contributions

4. 18 September 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

   Social housing supply

   190 contributions

5. 3 July 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session 10

   Social housing supply

   82 contributions

6. 3 July 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session 9

   Social housing supply

   54 contributions

7. 20 June 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session 8

   Social housing supply

   73 contributions

8. 20 June 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Evidence session 7

   Social housing supply

   70 contributions

Articles by Senedd Research, the Senedd's impartial research service, on this brief, published in the Sixth Senedd.

1. Building on the 2024 inquiry on social housing supply

   4 March 2026

   Wales may be on course to hit its 20,000 social homes target — but a Senedd committee says the system behind it is still “in crisis”.

2. Decarbonising private housing: the net-zero elephant in the (energy inefficient) room

   27 April 2023

   4 million homes in Wales, responsible for 11% of its overall carbon emissions.

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2,238 contributions in the Sixth Senedd, newest first.

1. Julie JamesLabour

   29 September 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

   Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change

   …has representatives from all key sectors across Wales, as it always has—partners from local government, housing associations, third sector homelessness and equality organisations, and experts from academic and legal fields. I'm really keen to have lived experience voices on the panel as well. So…

   Tagged for: “housing associations”Official Record

2. Julie JamesLabour

   29 September 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

   Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change

   So, we do meet very regularly with the housing cabinet members from across local government. We also meet regularly with registered social landlord providers and Community Housing Cymru. We also meet very regularly with the leaders of the local authorities. So, my colleague Rebecca Evans, the…

   Tagged for: “social landlord”Official Record

3. Julie JamesLabour

   29 September 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

   Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change

   …investment in homelessness prevention and housing support, and this £310 million record investment in social housing. So, obviously, we're trying to attack it from both ends. We're trying to make sure that our preventative services, our housing support services, and our rent support services are in…

   Tagged for: “social housing”Official Record

4. Julie JamesLabour

   29 September 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

   Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change

   …£197 million of investment in homeless prevention and housing support, and a record £310 million in the social housing budget. That includes all the social support grants, which are the main homelessness prevention grants provided to local authorities. We increased that funding last year, 2021-22…

   Tagged for: “social housing”Official Record

5. Jane HuttLabour

   27 September 2022, Plenary

   Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine

   …capital programme. This £65 million programme is supporting local authorities and registered social landlords to provide more good-quality longer term accommodation for Ukrainians, as well as looking much more widely to support all homelessness needs in Wales. We need to provide good-quality…

   Tagged for: “social landlords”Official Record

6. Lesley GriffithsLabour

   27 September 2022, Plenary

   Questions to the First Minister

   As I said, the Minister for Climate Change, who obviously has responsibility for housing, is currently considering the maximum social rent increases, for instance, in Wales, and an announcement will be made in due course. I'm not here to make up housing policy on the hoof, but I'm obviously aware…

   Tagged for: “social rent”Official Record

7. Adam PricePlaid

   27 September 2022, Plenary

   Questions to the First Minister

   …asked for the power to introduce a rent freeze there. We have that power already in Wales, and since social housing rent won't increase anyway until 1 April, a rent freeze over the winter won't cost the Welsh Government a penny; it's focused on the private sector. Even Conservative MPs like Natalie…

   Tagged for: “social housing”Official Record

8. Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

   26 September 2022, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

   Papers to note

   …letter from the Minister for Climate Change to the Llywydd explaining that a supplementary LCM on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill will be laid outside of the normal two-week Standing Order 29 deadline due to amendments to the Bill being laid over recess. Under item 9.17, we note the letter from…

   Tagged for: “Social Housing”Official Record

9. Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

   21 September 2022, Plenary

   Plaid Cymru Debate: Cost of living

   …authorities without a single property available at the LHA level. We know that the waiting list for social housing has increased by almost 50 per cent, and that list is somewhere in the region of 90,000. In light of this, we must take action as a matter of urgency. I'm pleased that Plaid Cymru's…

   Tagged for: “social housing”Translated from WelshOfficial Record

10. Carolyn ThomasLabour

    21 September 2022, Plenary

    Plaid Cymru Debate: Cost of living

    …We can then invest in our transport infrastructure, rebuild our NHS and care homes, build zero-carbon social housing and put money back in people's pockets. We had a decent NHS and public services before austerity, but we were told that we had to tighten our belts year after year, shaving 30 per…

    Tagged for: “social housing”Official Record

11. Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

    21 September 2022, Plenary

    Questions to the Minister for Climate Change

    …at the last moment. May I extend my best wishes to the Minister for a speedy recovery too? Tenants and housing associations alike are extremely concerned about the next few months and find it difficult to forward plan and to fund without assurance as to the rates of benefits. The noises made by Liz…

    Tagged for: “housing associations”Translated from WelshOfficial Record

12. Carolyn ThomasLabour

    21 September 2022, Plenary

    Questions to the Minister for Climate Change

    …to ensure that tenants are not pushed further, through evictions and rent increases? I understand that social housing rent is set on an annual basis, and if something could be done at least until the end of March next year to help them through winter, it would be really appreciated, just as the…

    Tagged for: “social housing”Official Record

13. Mark DrakefordLabour

    15 July 2022, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

    Economic strategy for coastal and rural communities

    …in Wales, to be able to have an indigenous timber industry that means, when we are building our 20,000 social homes for rent, that we can construct them with materials that are locally produced. So, there are questions in the report you will see about how we can organise the industry of the future…

    Tagged for: “social homes”Official Record

14. Richard Baker

    13 July 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

    Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government

    …to develop a couple of pilots with Cwmpas and a local community and an RSL, so we're tapping into the social housing grant and our land and buildings development fund to help develop a couple of projects at a community level. So, that's something we're progressing, hopefully over the next 12 months.

    Tagged for: “social housing”Official Record

15. Julie JamesLabour

    13 July 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

    Inquiry into community assets—evidence session 4: Minister for Climate Change and the Minister for Finance and Local Government

    …in place. So, at the moment, we often have a private sector development and it's got an element of social housing in it. You know this, Sam; we've had this conversation many times. It starts off at 20 per cent, and, by the time it's being built, it's 8 per cent or something, which is really…

    Tagged for: “social housing”Official Record

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