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The last bastion of council housing

By: Series: Housing Today ; 7 February 2003, 24-29(6)Publication details: 2003Subject(s): Summary: Reviews current regional social housing policy and practice in South Wales. Housing authorities such as Cardiff are still building and running their own housing stock. However financial pressure is growing to steer authorities down the stock transfer route, the direction which seems to be favoured by the Welsh Assembly. A community mutual model in which a council's housing is transferred to a tenant organisation, which has the status of a housing association is also supported by the assembly. Includes a table of key housing data for South Wales.

Reviews current regional social housing policy and practice in South Wales. Housing authorities such as Cardiff are still building and running their own housing stock. However financial pressure is growing to steer authorities down the stock transfer route, the direction which seems to be favoured by the Welsh Assembly. A community mutual model in which a council's housing is transferred to a tenant organisation, which has the status of a housing association is also supported by the assembly. Includes a table of key housing data for South Wales.