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On Friday 23rd November, the Tai Pawb team travelled to the Vale Resort Hotel in the Vale of Glamorgan after being shortlisted for two Welsh Housing Awards. We submitted nominations for the New Ideas and Innovations, and Valuing Equality and Diversity awards. New Ideas and Innovations Open Doors is a two year Big Lottery funded … Continued
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Tai Pawb is the only charity in Wales with a specific focus on promoting equality and social justice in the housing sector. We are a small dedicated team, with a membership of over 60 organisations across Wales, including local authorities, care providers, voluntary organisations and all Welsh housing associations. We are looking for freelance consultants … Continued
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A recent Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Inquiry highlighted the chronic shortage of accessible and adaptable housing available for disabled and older people. The EHRC called for urgent action to address this shortage including: building homes across all tenures to Lifetime Homes standards, 10% of all new houses to be wheelchair accessible, improving the … Continued
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Written by Sarah Scotcher, Policy Officer – Community Housing Cymru A few times throughout the Tai Pawb Close to Home conference, held in Cardiff on 17th May, delegates remarked that the conversation around housing is changing. More and more, we’re seeing housing (and decent housing) as something that everyone should be able to access unconditionally, and … Continued
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Shelter Cymru Campaigns Manager, Jennie Bibbings, gives her thoughts about the right to housing, following Tai Pawb’s Conference ‘Close to Home’… Here’s an interesting fact: did you know that the right to housing was first enshrined in Welsh legislation more than seven centuries ago? If you already knew that, give yourself a pat on the … Continued
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There is a chronic shortage of accessible and adaptable housing available for disabled and older people, and urgent action is needed to address this shortage. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report highlights the lack of strategic planning and delivery of accessible homes locally, regionally and nationally. 26% of people in Wales are disabled and … Continued
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Tai Pawb made the trip to Newtown right in the middle of Wales to discuss and present on Accessible Homes. We were very glad to have Ruth Coombs, Head of EHRC Wales as the headline speaker to share emerging findings from the Commissions UK Inquiry into Housing for Disabled People. One of the key findings … Continued
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We gathered an experienced and diverse group of speakers for our first event of 2018 to talk about race inequality in housing. This event should have been the final one of 2017, but the weather had other ideas. Luckily for us, the Orbit Business Centre in Merthyr Tydfil kindly allowed us to rearrange and we … Continued
