Council houses are being built in parts of Wales for the first time in decades in response to a shortage of affordable housing. The Welsh Government wants councils to take advantage of new rules allowing them to borrow more money. But Cardiff council said it could raise more cash if the Welsh Government allowed it to increase people's rent. More than 8,000 council homes were completed in 1976, compared to an annual average of 15 since 2000. Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Anglesey, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham, Powys, Pembrokeshire, Swansea and Vale of Glamorgan councils are among those now building their own homes again. Even with hundreds of homes being built or bought in some counties, the numbers are way below the huge council-house building programmes of the 1970s. Housing charity Shelter said 66,386 households were on waiting lists in Wales, according to 2018 figures. Councils have been able to borrow more to build homes since April ...
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