Housing

The Programme for Government 2026 to 2030 belongs to the Seventh Senedd. Choose the Seventh Senedd to see how often each commitment has come up.

Source: Welsh Government, Programme for government 2026 to 2030: New ambition for Wales, first published on 10 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Mentions are found by matching the names of plans, bodies and schemes; a mention says nothing about progress.

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

1. 12 November 2024Statement

   Building safety

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer22 contributions

2. 15 October 2024Statement

   Energy and the green economy

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer22 contributions

3. 1 October 2024Statement

   More homes towards ending homelessness

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer30 contributions

4. 17 July 2024Debate

   Confronting the crisis: Tackling youth homelessness in Wales

   Short Debate

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd12 contributions

5. 12 June 2024Debate

   Planning policy for new power lines

   Plaid Cymru Debate

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer33 contributions

6. 7 May 2024Statement

   Working with local government to deliver more affordable homes

   Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer21 contributions

7. 12 March 2024Statement

   Second Homes and Affordability

   Statement by the Minister for Climate Change

   Opened by Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer15 contributions

8. 12 March 2024Statement

   The Warm Homes Programme

   Statement by the Minister for Climate Change

   Opened by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd13 contributions

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

• 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.

No written questions on this brief in the Sixth Senedd yet.

5 petitions to the Senedd on this brief, open ones first, then by signatures:

1. Scrap the council tax "loophole": holiday lets should pay their way

   Open

   315 signatures

2. Restore a fair funding route so Welsh students aren’t shut out from MT/dance degrees in England

   Closed

   10,585 signatures

3. Pause and withdraw climate-based policies that damage nature, farms and daily life in Wales.

   Closed

   2,174 signatures

4. Stop the detention of learning disabled and autistic children, young people and adults in hospitals.

   Closed

   1,754 signatures

5. Protect Community Buildings and Ensure Transparency in High-Street Redevelopment in Wales

   Closed

   285 signatures

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

1. 16 October 2024Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

   Panel 4 - Housing and decarbonisation

   Foundational Economy

   123 contributions

2. 10 October 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

   148 contributions

3. 10 October 2024Local Government and Housing Committee

   Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

   209 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. The Local Growth Fund: how effectively will it drive regional development?

   9 March 2026

   Professor Kevin Morgan says that Wales has one of the biggest economic development problems in Western Europe.

2. 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”.

3. What does the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 mean for Wales?

   19 November 2025

   The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 gained Royal Assent on 27 October 2025, bringing major changes to the private rented sector (PRS) in England.

4. Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill: resource page

   11 November 2025

   The Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill was introduced into the Senedd on Monday 3 November 2025.

5. Can a new law end homelessness in Wales?

   29 October 2025

   On Tuesday 4 November the Senedd will debate a proposed new law that the Welsh Government says will provide the legal basis for its plan to make homelessness rare, brief, and unrepeated.

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3,120 contributions in the Sixth Senedd, newest first.

1. Kevin Thomas

   7 November 2024, Finance Committee

   Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session

   …on our new office as part of the lease deal in 2024-25, and it's typically what you negotiate with a landlord on a new lease. As a result of that, because it was rent free, we requested less cash than we required for the resource associated with the lease, because in terms of resource, we account…

   Tagged for: “landlord”Official Record

2. Amelia John

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   …actually outnumbered those who did not. Clearly, people arriving seeking sanctuary, people experiencing homelessness, can be very traumatised and that's really unfortunate and distressing to see. There will always be people who seek to stoke community tensions. We have got—Welsh Government—eight…

   Tagged for: “homelessness”Official Record

3. Emma Williams

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   …was a TACP-supported development. We provided funding to the Vale of Glamorgan to develop factory-built housing on that site. I think it's 90 units of good quality housing that is in place there under the Vale's permitted development rights. The decision to initially focus that specifically on…

   Tagged for: “housing”, “permitted development”Official Record

4. Adam PricePlaid

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   …the Vale of Glamorgan Council, because this had been brought up specifically in the Senedd, to develop housing for Ukrainians on the former primary school site in Llantwit Major? And how did you tackle any risks in terms of community cohesion in that context?

   Tagged for: “housing”Translated from WelshOfficial Record

5. Adam PricePlaid

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   Rent Smart Wales landlords, some of them—. The training for those landlords under Rent Smart Wales had been rated red in the progress update regarding the nation of sanctuary policy. What was the impact of the delivery delay in terms of providing this training?

   Tagged for: “Rent Smart Wales”, “landlords”Translated from WelshOfficial Record

6. Natasha AsgharConservative

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   …on Mike Hedges’s questions from earlier. On the £2.5 million that you received, for example, for homelessness, you said that has been distributed amongst local authorities. How have you distributed that? Is it based on the number of people that they’re housing? Is it based on just an equal…

   Tagged for: “homelessness”, “housing”Official Record

7. Amelia John

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   We’ve received £2.59 million from the UK Government’s homelessness prevention fund, and that’s been distributed in its entirety to local authorities to support pressures in relation to housing and accommodation as a result of the Ukraine response. I think it’s important to say that that’s not…

   Tagged for: “homelessness”, “housing”Official Record

8. Natasha AsgharConservative

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   …to receive for the year 2024-25 relating to the Ukraine response, including any funding to prevent homelessness amongst Ukrainians?

   Tagged for: “homelessness”Official Record

9. Emma Williams

   6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

   Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

   …together to try and find new host accommodation. The local authority, obviously, has duties, its usual homelessness duties and duties to make sure that people are accommodated, which kick in. But we're doing everything we can to make sure that placements are sustainable in the first instance and…

   Tagged for: “homelessness”Official Record

10. Mark IsherwoodConservative

    6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

    Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

    …initial accommodation are closed, how is the Welsh Government managing the risk of Ukrainians becoming homeless, should individual hosting arrangements break down?

    Tagged for: “homeless”Official Record

11. Emma Williams

    6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

    Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

    …to supporting Ukrainians, they may be able to use that rather than their more general discretionary housing payment schemes. We have been clear with local authorities that they need to be cautious with how they use things like rent top-ups in particular. We need to make sure that we don't place…

    Tagged for: “housing”, “affordable housing”Official Record

12. Emma Williams

    6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

    Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

    …the number of people arriving from Ukraine from other schemes into the system, the number of people in temporary accommodation in an area, and population share. So, it was looking at how, initially, the 1,000 people that we were looking to support would be spread out and shared out across Wales.…

    Tagged for: “temporary accommodation”Official Record

13. Emma Williams

    6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

    Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

    …we are in terms of the exact allocations. But I think the local authority role in the allocation of housing is absolutely key. Local authorities are the ones with legal responsibility for meeting housing needs within their areas, and it's really important that they have the authority and the…

    Tagged for: “housing”Official Record

14. Emma Williams

    6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

    Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

    …that are funded through the TACP are allocated by local authorities to people who are either in temporary accommodation, homeless or at risk of homelessness. So, it is a very targeted intervention. But, back to the theme that we've referenced a number of times about parity, we don't feel it…

    Tagged for: “temporary accommodation”, “homeless”, “homelessness”, “housing”…Official Record

15. Ruth Meadows

    6 November 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

    Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials

    …from other countries, but also groups that we were supporting and are continuing to support in our temporary accommodation and in our homelessness services. So, by January 2023, we had reviewed and revised our initial wraparound support offer quite considerably, and we pulled back from quite a bit…

    Tagged for: “temporary accommodation”, “homelessness”Official Record

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