Housing supply
In summary
Housing association’s play a key role in increasing the availability of affordable housing in Wales. They do this by not only building new homes to a high quality and low carbon standard, but also by bringing additional affordable homes to people in Wales through acquisition and remodelling.
Housing associations are independent social businesses and work in partnership with local authorities, private developers and lenders to leverage billions of pounds of investment into Wales.
Housing associations are committed to ensuring that their investment makes public money go further and makes the greatest impact locally.
Our 2025 research estimates the hypothetical impact of housing associations building 20,000 affordable homes over the next 4-year Senedd term would:
- Benefit people and communities by £3.6bn (NPV)
primarily by increasing labour market productivity
and lowering bills; - Save vital public services £2.1bn (NPV) mainly by
decreasing temporary accommodation costs and
the cost of homelessness services. - Support a workforce of 14,200 per year during
construction, and 2690 direct and indirect jobs per
year in the longer term. - Add £3.5bn GVA to the Welsh economy during
construction, with a continued contribution of
£114m per annum in the longer term.
Our priorities
Our priority is to take action to make strategy, policy and funding changes that remove barriers to developing new social homes.
We have actively contributed to the development of the Welsh Government's affordable housing taskforce recommendations and recognise this as a vital roadmap to improve the pace and scale of affordable housing delivery.
How we develop this area of work
Our future homes and finance member communities are central to horizon scanning the challenges and opportunities for new homes and investment.
We engage regularly with the Welsh Government and members of the Senedd.
For more information on how we develop policy, click here.
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