We provide direct support for people experiencing homelessness and influence policy to help end homelessness in Wales.
We provide frontline services for people experiencing homelessness in South Wales and campaign for the national changes needed to end homelessness altogether.
Our South Wales Skylight provides direct one-to-one support to people who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness in Swansea, Neath or Port Talbot. Our Best Practice team works across Wales to identify, test and promote ways of ending homelessness. Our Wales Policy team works towards the aim of bringing about the national structural changes needed to end homelessness altogether.
In 2022, the Welsh Government invited us to co-ordinate the Expert Review Panel on homelessness legislation. Many of the recommendations the panel made were reflected in the Welsh Government’s White Paper on Ending Homelessness, which proposes bold and progressive changes to the law to help ensure people at risk of or experiencing homelessness get the support they need.
These changes will be developed into an Ending Homelessness Bill in 2025. Our policy team will continue to see how this develops so that we can ensure these changes make a real difference to ending homelessness in Wales.
Crisis Skylight South Wales works with people who are homeless and vulnerably housed.
At Crisis Skylight South Wales we offer help to support people in their journey out of homelessness and towards independence.
South Wales Skylight members have recently launched an art exhibition Home: The Key to Hope in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) building in Cardiff Bay.
This fantastic exhibition sends a powerful message about the importance of home and also raises awareness of some of the barriers that people experiencing homelessness can face.
Free to view 7 January – 13 February 2025.
The Homelessness Monitor: Wales 2021 is the fourth report in Wales of an independent study of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in the UK, commissioned and funded by Crisis.
Homelessness is complex. People can become homeless for lots of different reasons. The journey out of homelessness is complex too. Issues such as the availability of affordable housing, legislation and the benefits system can cause and affect homelessness.
In the homelessness knowledge hub you will find research about homelessness trends, the causes of homelessness and its impacts.
In Wales, we welcomed the publication of the National Plan to End Homelessness 2021. We are proud that our CEO, Matt Downie MBE, has been appointed chair of the Ending Homelessness National Advisory Board, advising on progress towards ending homelessness in Wales.
Our policy team in Wales seeks positive change so that people experiencing homelessness will be able to access the support they need. We also campaign for changes to help prevent people from experiencing homelessness in the first place. Check out our latest consultation responses.
Email: southwales@crisis.org.uk | Telephone: 01792 674 900
For media enquiries contact the Crisis Press Office call 020 7426 3880 or email media@crisis.org.uk.
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