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.
We were proud to be invited by the Welsh Government to co-ordinate an Expert Review Panel looking at how changes to the law could help to end homelessness in Wales. The recommendations made by the panel have helped to inform a new draft law on homelessness.
Our policy team will continue to follow this law closely. We want to ensure that key changes to help people get the support they need to prevent or end homelessness are given the green light. And we want to ensure the law is as effective as it can be.
A safe, stable home is essential for our health and wellbeing. But right now, thousands of us in Wales are facing the trauma of homelessness.
To end homelessness in Wales, we need:
This Senedd election is our chance to speak up. Now is the time to tell your political candidates and leaders that they need to prioritise ending homelessness. Because your support depends on it.
Will you join us and speak up to end homelessness?
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.
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.
Here at Crisis we’re dedicated to campaigning for the changes needed to end homelessness – both at Westminster and in Cardiff Bay.
We recently celebrated a big campaign win with the UK Government committing to scrap the Vagrancy Act – an ancient law across England and Wales that criminalises people for sleeping rough.
In Wales, we fed into a National Plan to End Homelessness and we’re proud that our CEO, Matt Downie MBE, chairs the Ending Homelessness National Advisory Board, advising on progress towards ending homelessness in Wales.
We’ve also been calling for changes to the law in Wales to help ensure people can get the support they need to prevent or end their homelessness.
You can help us campaign for change by signing up for updates.
Crisis has long been calling for changes to the law on homelessness. On 10 February 2026, we celebrated as Members of the Senedd unanimously voted to pass the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocations (Wales) Bill into law.
The Homelessness Monitor: Wales 2025 is the fifth 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.
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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