The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Cymru has welcomed a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) looking at the scale of Wales’ rural housing problem.

Click here for more…

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) welcomes the new Housing Minister Caroline Flint’s focus on the problems of worklessness, but cautions against a policy that could undermine the important stability that housing gives to people often in transitional periods of their lives.

Click here for more…

Average mortgage costs to income for first-time-buyers are now higher than they were in the 1990s at the peak of the last housing boom, while increasing numbers of households are moving into private rented housing, according to the newly published UK Housing Review.

Click here for more…

The government’s announcement to increase the threshold on inheritance tax liability to £600,000 for couples could have been designed to give thousands of people an opportunity to get a foot on the housing ladder, says the professional body for people working in housing.

Click here for more…

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has called for the role of a new regulator to cover all providers of social rented housing, including local authorities, to ensure that all residents in affordable housing are protected to the same degree.

Click here for more…

The Chartered Institute of Housing has responded positively to the Government’s Housing Green Paper.

Click here for more…

New research will contribute to meeting the target of 3 million new homes by 2020, announced by Gordon Brown last week.

Click here for more…

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has pressed the Government to promote more CO2 friendly homes in the UK.

Click here for more…

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has welcomed the decision of the UK’s new Prime Minister to strengthen his Cabinet in relation to tackling the country’s significant housing problems.

Click here for more…