Over 38% of Powys
households can not
afford to buy a home
and nearly 38% can’t
afford to rent from a
private landlord (1)
Even in the most
affordable housing
market in Ceredigion - Lampeter - three quarters of households have an
income below that
required to secure an entry level mortgage.(2)
Between 2006 and
2026 research
indicates a shortfall
in the provision of
non-market housing
of 345 properties a
year in Powys and
Ceredigion taken
together.(3)
Council and Housing
Association homes
as a proportion of
total UK homes fell
by 20% between 1981 and 2008.(4) In Wales between 1996 and 2008 there has been a 12% fall.(5)
Nearly 30% of
Council and Housing
Association tenants n the UK are economically inactive.(6)

   


The Association feels it should change the way it allocates housing to give priority to applicants who are more valuable to the communities
where it has housing and proposes a system that rewards local people, those in employment and those who contribute to society by voluntary
work.


The full consultation paper can be viewed/downloaded here.

 

You can respond to the consultation by clicking here.

It is important to the Association that it lets its homes in a fair, transparent and effective way and that it does so in a way which is responsive to the views of the people of Mid-Wales.

 

The full consultation responses report can be viewed/downloaded here.

 

 

The Association would like your views on the proposals set out in this consultation document and in particular to the following questions.

Please will you let us have your comments by no later than 25th February 2011 sending them either in writing to:

Mr. Shane Perkins,
Chief Executive,
Mid-Wales Housing Association,
TÅ· Canol House,
Ffordd Croesawdy,
Newtown,
Powys, SY16 1AL

Or electronically to:
consultation@mid-walesha.co.uk

Or on-line at the Association’s web site:
www.mid-walesha.co.uk

Or by texting the word
AGREE or DISAGREE to:
07797 885035

 

 

  1. Powys County Council Local Housing Market Assessment 2010 
  2. Ceredigion Local Housing Market Research Papers {Draft} 2010 
  3. Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research 2010 
  4. Table 801: Household characteristics, tenure trend, from 1918, Department for Communities and Local Government. available on their website 
  5. Table 1: Dwelling stock estimates, by tenure, Welsh Assembly Government, available on its website. 
  6. Table 803: Household characteristics, economic status of household reference person, by tenure, 2008, Department for Communities and Local Government available on their website.