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You can apply to your local authority if you need a home.
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You can apply for a housing association home if you need a home and on a low income or need extra support.
Make a complaint about your council house or housing association home
What to do if you have a problem with your council house or housing association home.
Feedback about your housing association or council house
How you could help improve housing services.
Leasing Scheme Wales: guidance
Explains the scheme and what it means for tenants and property owners.

Renting from a private landlord

Tenants rights and responsibilities

Guidance and services

Tenants: housing law is changing (Renting Homes)
What Renting Homes means for tenants and licensees.
Licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMO): guidance for tenants
How to check if your shared building should have a license and what to do if it is not.
Licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMO): guidance for landlords
Guidance about checking if the building you manage needs a license and how to apply.
Letting fees: guidance for tenants
Letting fees you will not need to pay as part of your tenancy agreement, and fees you may need to pay when letting a property.
Houses in multiple occupation (HMO): guidance for local authorities
Guidance on managing and controlling HMOs and the laws relating to them.
Tenant letting fees: detailed guidance
Explains what fees you may need to pay when renting a home from a private landlord.
Leasing Scheme Wales: guidance
Explains the scheme and what it means for tenants and property owners.
Model written statement for secure contracts
Landlords can use this document as the basis for creating a new secure contract.
Model written statement for periodic standard contracts
Landlords can use this document as the basis for creating a new periodic standard contract.
Model written statement for fixed term standard contracts
Landlords can use this document as the basis for creating a new fixed term standard contract for a term of less than 7 years.
Tenants: housing law is changing (Renting Homes) (easy read)
What Renting Homes means for tenants and licensees.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

Renting Homes Act and regulations
Policy and strategy
The new housing laws which we plan to come into force from 1 December 2022.
Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Bill: justice system impact assessment
Impact assessment
An assessment on how the Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Bill affects the justice system.
Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Bill: impact assessments
Impact assessment
How the Renting Homes (Amendment) (Wales) Bill may impact on different areas.
Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill: privacy impact assessments
Impact assessment
An assessment on how people’s privacy may be impacted by the Bill.
Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill: gateway impact assessment
Impact assessment
An assessment on how the rights of people may be affected by the Bill.
The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Assured Tenancies and Assured Shorthold Tenancies, Extension of Notice Periods) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020
Legislation
These Regulations temporarily extend from three months to six months the notice period that landlords must give tenants under the Housing Act 1988.

Renting Homes: housing law is changing

Find out how you need to prepare for new housing laws planned from 15 July 2022.

Guidance and services

Landlords: housing law is changing (Renting Homes)
Landlords find out how new laws are planned to change the way you rent your properties from 1 December 2022.
Tenants: housing law is changing (Renting Homes)
What Renting Homes means for tenants and licensees.
Tenants: housing law is changing (Renting Homes) (easy read)
What Renting Homes means for tenants and licensees.
Renting homes: forms for landlords
From 1 December 2022 landlords should use these forms to manage their rental property.
Renting homes: forms for tenants (contract holders)
From 1 December 2022 tenants should use these forms to make changes to their contract.
Renting homes: alternative language guidance
Guidance in alternative languages for landlords and tenants about changes to the way you rent properties from 1 December 2022.
Renting homes: model written statements
Landlords can use these to create new contracts with tenants of residential properties from 1 December 2022.
Fitness of homes for human habitation: guidance for landlords
Explains what landlords must do from 1 December 2022 to ensure their property is in good repair and fit for human habitation.
Fitness for human habitation: guidance for tenants (contract holders)
Information for contract holders explaining what landlords must do from 1 December 2022 to ensure rented homes in Wales are fit for human habitation.
Creating a converted occupation contract: guidance for landlords
Use this guidance to create a written statement for a converted occupation contract.
Possession of abandoned dwellings and safeguarding of property: guidance
How landlords can get ownership of an abandoned dwelling and what to do with any belongings left behind.
Renting homes: supported accommodation
Landlords follow this guidance and use this form for short term exclusions of contract-holders from the property.
Renting homes: frequently asked questions (tenants)
Answers to common questions about changes to the way tenants and licensees in Wales rent properties.
Renting homes: frequently asked questions (landlords)
Answers to common questions about changes to the way all landlords in Wales rent their properties.
Standard occupation contracts: guidance
This guidance helps to explain the meaning of the terms included in occupation contracts.
Secure occupation contracts: guidance
This guidance helps to explain the meaning of the terms included in occupation contracts.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

Renting Homes Act and regulations
Policy and strategy
The new housing laws which we plan to come into force from 1 December 2022.
Renting Homes: toolkit
Promotional material
Campaign materials for Renting Homes and how to use them.
The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022
Policy and strategy
These Regulations make saving and transitional provisions in relation to the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) (“the 2016 Act”).
Explanatory Memorandum to the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022
Policy and strategy
These Regulations make saving and transitional provisions in relation to the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (“the 2016 Act”).

Apply for housing

Guidance and services

Renting from a private landlord

Guidance and services

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

Renting Homes: housing law is changing

Guidance and services

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

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