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Are You Renting Privately? Is Your Home Suitable And Affordable? Have Your Say!

Welsh Government have launched a Green Paper consultation as they want to know your thoughts, as single parents on what a good quality, affordable home looks like.

Single Parents Wellbeing are partnering with TPAS CYMRU, to find out what is really going on in the private rented sector and get your voice heard.

Are you a private renter? Are you paying too much for your rent? Does your home meet your needs? We are here to listen! We want to encourage the right changes, but we need to know your experiences to do so.

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Housing Options For Single Parents - Support With Financial Difficulties By Elizabeth Taylor

The challenge of affording suitable housing as a single parent is endless. All too often we are trapped in a cycle of trying to earn enough to get a mortgage and trying not to earn too much that you will lose the Universal Credit support towards your rent; never mind the waiting lists that we face to move into social housing. Ok, now I have finished ranting, ill move to the positives, there are in fact many initiatives in Wales that we can access as single parents, it is simply knowing about them.

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