What does Mike Tyson have in common with the Welsh social housing sector? Not much, apart from the fact that the heavyweight boxing champion once stayed at the Vale Resort in Hensol where the Chartered Institute of Housing’s TAI 2025 conference was held earlier this week. At least this is what the taxi driver told Housing Today’s reporter as they drove past the hotel’s 18-hole golf course.

Blue skies welcomed housing professionals, government officials and residents to Wales on Wednesday and Thursday this week, where the topics on the table included everything from upcoming legislative changes to breaking the glass ceiling.