Tenants Voice Cymru Forum January 2025

Wednesday 15^th January 2025: 10.30am – 12.00pm

Come along and find out what is happening with social housing rents in Wales and share your thoughts with Welsh Government officials leading this important work.

In Wales,  all social landlords need to adhere to  the Welsh Government’s Standard for Social Housing Rents and Service Charges (Rent and Service Charge Standard) when setting  their rents.  This standard includes  requiring landlords to look  at affordability for Tenants,  and how  landlords undertake effective tenant engagement and consultation when setting rents. 

 The current Standard is in place up until  31st March 2026, so the Welsh Government has started  work to look at  developing  a clear, more robust social rent standard  for the future.  This is to  ensure the future social rent policy reflects the Welsh housing context and balance existing and future needs of both social landlords and their current and future tenants. 

So what should be included in a new Rent Standard?

It is important that social housing tenants have opportunities to feed into the policy development process, in addition to having opportunities to respond through formal consultation on policy proposals.  To enable this to happen, Repa Antonio from Welsh Government will be attending the January Tenants Voice Cymru Forum to set out what they’re doing to learn from the implementation of social rent policy; why they are prioritising this work; and how they are going about delivering their programme of work.  

Repa said: “We are grateful for the opportunity to hear direct from tenants about their thoughts, opinions and experiences on this important topic.”

Tenants

Free of charge for social housing Tenants

• This is an online workshop via Zoom
• The session will not be recorded

Book your place via this Zoom link

Please note – once you have booked using this link you will receive an email confirmation with the joining link direct from Zoom ([email protected]) The joining link does not come from a TPAS Cymru email address so you may need to check your spam/junk email boxes. The email with joining link also gives you the opportunity to save the details to an electronic calendar, such as Outlook