, Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Follow-up inquiry into Empty Properties: Evidence session 4
Good morning. I'm Clarissa Corbisiero, I'm deputy chief exec of Community Housing Cymru. We represent 31 not-for-profit housing associations in Wales …
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning: Building Safety Programme Update
… the Welsh Government taking to address the specialist workforce shortages ahead of the implementation? I know that Community Housing Cymru has been sharing with the Government feedback from their members across Wales. It's important that the Government …
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
… the parts of society that the public sector never can. Speaking here in 2016 in support of Community Housing Cymru and Cymorth Cymru’s Let’s Keep On Supporting People campaign for 2017-18, I called for the … and reducing avoidable pressure on statutory services.' Speaking in 2017 as co-sponsor at Cymorth Cymru and Community Housing Cymru’s campaign rally for the Supporting People programme—a programme that prevents homelessness and then supported over …
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal—Take-up of Benefits Bill
… poverty in Wales, welfare reform, local approaches and long-term strategies in March 2019, I noted that Community Housing Cymru had called on the Welsh Government to respond positively to their call for Welsh Government and local authorities … the First Minister how he responded to the calls by the Bevan Foundation, Citizens Advice Cymru and Community Housing Cymru for the Welsh Government to establish a single point of access for benefits and support schemes administered …
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health: Priorities for social care, mental health and women's health
… health and care system, specifically with regard to delayed discharges and sharing of patient records. In April, Community Housing Cymru estimated that discharge delays due to housing issues had risen from an average of 63 days …
, Plenary
Group 4: Timing of fire risk assessments (Amendments 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
… different types of regulated buildings. This would confer flexibility to deal with the issues that partners like Community Housing Cymru have raised. Therefore, I urge the Senedd to support these amendments …
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
… are. The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (Amendment of Schedule 6) Order 2026. This Order adds Community Housing Cymru to the list of bodies that are liable to be required to comply with the Welsh language standards and …
, Plenary
Group 2: Local connection (Amendments 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 68, 69)
… and the Cabinet Secretary is saying they would be undeliverable, the amendments—are supporting them, as are Community Housing Cymru and Tai Pawb. I see no reason why this clear issue should be ignored today, and I encourage …
, Plenary
Group 2: Local connection (Amendments 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 68, 69)
… Cardiff University, Shelter Cymru, Cymorth Cymru, the Welsh Local Government Association, Carmarthenshire council, Conwy council, Pembrokeshire council, Community Housing Cymru and Tai Pawb. This is also the case for amendments 41 and 48, which relate to people who …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 4: Fire risk assessments (Amendments 150, 152, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156)
… have some sympathy with what Joel aims to do with amendment 153. Community Housing Cymru have expressed concerns about the Bill's current requirement that the first fire risk assessment under the Bill must be completed within six …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 2
Okay. Turning, then, to the availability of public land, I think that Community Housing Cymru have called on the Welsh Government to scale up its work to bring forward public land at a discount. The Government have told …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 2
Okay. If we move on then, Clarissa, Community Housing Cymru are in favour of a national development corporation, which this committee also recommended. That was rejected by Welsh Government. What are your thoughts on that? Just how important …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 2
… Codi Group; we have Clarissa Corbisiero, deputy chief executive and director of policy and external affairs with Community Housing Cymru; we have Councillor Andrea Williams of Swansea Council, who is also representing councils in Wales in terms …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 11: Housing registers (Amendments 10, 76, 77, 78, 11, 51, 52, 12, 13, 14, 15)
… urgent issues of flooding, safety, change of disability circumstances, et cetera. From discussions with organisations such as Community Housing Cymru, this wording is preferable to that of the original, and with that in mind, I'd still like …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
… carbon and not for social rent. At the recent meeting of the cross-party group on housing, Community Housing Cymru, CHC, stated that social landlords are building homes at the highest rate since 2008, which sounds great, but …
, Plenary
& 9. The general principles of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill
… push to ensure that remediation is carried out swiftly and fairly. We share the concerns raised by Community Housing Cymru. Funding must be fair, implementation must be phased and realistic, and requirements must align with existing best practice …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Welsh Government 2026-27 Draft Budget: Evidence session on housing with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
… approach to identifying and then meeting the costs. Also, I know, in their written evidence, that Community Housing Cymru mentioned the amalgamating of the optimised retrofit programme with funding to support the Wales housing quality standard. They allege …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Welsh Government 2026-27 Draft Budget: Evidence session on housing with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
… Government on the issue, and that was a joint letter with the Welsh Local Government Association and Community Housing Cymru's chief executive. Subsequent to my letter, the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice has also written to the …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
The letters on the building safety Bill from Community Housing Cymru, and from the representative of Swansea in particular, on the issues we asked them about are concerning, and I think that's something we'll need …
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
… additional information on that Bill from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health; similarly, paper 4 from Community Housing Cymru; and paper 5, additional information again on that Bill, from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government. Paper …