Housing data, policies and strategies

Find out answers to the most common questions we get asked about housing as part of freedom of information (FOI) requests.

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Our strategy to aid our aim in making homelessness rare, brief and unrepeated.

This Strategy sets out the guiding principles for the development and delivery of Swansea Council's Housing Rents Management Service over the next 4 years.

This policy is the framework for the assessment of applications for council housing including tenant transfers, the allocation of council property, and nominations to a tenancy held by a housing association.

This strategy sets out the guiding principles for the development and delivery of estate management services on Swansea Council housing estates over the next 4 years.

The Private Sector Housing Renewal and Disabled Adaptations Policy details how we deliver assistance to help private owners and tenants to repair, maintain or adapt their homes

All stock retaining Authorities have to bring their properties up to the Welsh Housing Quality Standard by 2020.

Our gypsy traveller policy gives families equal opportunity to access services provided by the council and others.

When someone who is eligible for help under the homelessness provisions of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, is threatened with homelessness, the council is required to take all reasonable steps to keep that household together in their home, if it is suitable.

The Housing (Wales) Act 2014 requires local authorities to carry out an assessment of the accommodation needs of gypsies and travellers residing in or resorting to its area and to make provision for sites where the assessment identifies an unmet need for mobile home pitches.