03 Feb 2025
CIH Cymru launches latest snapshot survey to understand the state of the Welsh housing sector
The survey, open today until Monday 3 March, will canvass the opinions of hundreds of housing professionals across Wales to understand the impact of working to meet Welsh Government’s target of 20,000 affordable homes by its March 2026 deadline.
The survey will look to understand what motivates the Welsh housing sector, the potential impacts of the UK and Welsh governments’ budgets on the work of delivering to current targets, impacts of challenges including the rise in national insurance contributions and how increasing workloads are affecting mental health and wellbeing in the housing sector.
Survey findings will be gathered and shared at the upcoming TAI 2025 at the Vale Resort, Hensol in April.
The 2024 sector snapshot found that although 77 per cent of housing professionals are motivated to work within the sector by a desire to help people and end homelessness, 68 per cent of local authority respondents and 39 per cent of housing association respondents said that their work was having a negative impact on their mental health.
A lack of funding, combined with increased expectations of the housing sector from the Welsh Government around supply, decarbonisation and new homelessness legislation were cited as reasons for rising workloads in housing teams, creating further pressure on already finite resources.
For more information and to take the latest snapshot survey, please visit:
2025 Snapshot Survey in English
