{"id":9492,"date":"2019-07-10T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/?post_type=news&amp;p=9492"},"modified":"2019-07-10T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:56:53","slug":"tai-pawb-reacts-to-ministers-response-on-affordable-housing-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/news\/2019\/tai-pawb-reacts-to-ministers-response-on-affordable-housing-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Pawb reacts to Minister&#8217;s response on Affordable Housing Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Housing and Local Government, Julie James AM, has <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gov.wales\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/2019-07\/independent-review-of-affordable-housing-supply-government-response.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded formally<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to the recommendations of the Independent Review of Affordable Housing Supply.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9100 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-02-09.19.09-425x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the Minister&#8217;s response, Tai Pawb&#8217;s director, Alicja Zalesinska, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTai Pawb is broadly pleased that the Minister has set out an ambitious programme for affordable housing in accepting all-but-one of the Review\u2019s recommendations. We are particularly pleased to see that the importance of better capturing the range of needs in Local Housing Market Assessments (LHMAs) &#8211; including those of disabled people and young and older people \u2013 is recognised and will be carried forward.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In evidence to the Review, Tai Pawb also called for Welsh Government to maintain the Lifetime Homes standard. The Review has, instead, favoured a move towards standards on minimum space and storage.<\/p>\n<p>Alicja added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are, however, concerned that the recommendation accepted on standards refers only to minimum space and storage standards and not adaptability. Whilst adaptability wasn\u2019t referred to in the Review\u2019s main recommendation, it did state the any future standard should be designed to support ease of future adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tai Pawb is conscious that adaptability standards mustn\u2019t be lowered as part of this new focus and, to that end, we are committed to working with the Welsh Government and other stakeholders to ensure that adaptability hasn\u2019t been negatively impacted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fundamentally, we believe that the human right to housing is the best framework in which all of this work can be carried forward in the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Housing and Local Government, Julie James AM, has responded formally to the recommendations of the Independent Review of Affordable Housing Supply. Reacting to the Minister&#8217;s response, Tai Pawb&#8217;s director, Alicja Zalesinska, said: \u201cTai Pawb is broadly pleased that the Minister has set out an ambitious programme for affordable housing in accepting all-but-one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,127,120,121],"tags":[],"temporary-categorisation-from-im":[114],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing","category-human-rights","category-legislation","category-policy","temporary-categorisation-from-im-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"temporary-categorisation-from-im","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taipawb.org\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/temporary-categorisation-from-im?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}