English: Welsh Government's property loans programme has available a mix of capital grant and repayable loan financing worth over £42 million, available through local authorities to owner-occupiers to improve properties and to bring those empty properties back into use. Of this, £11 million has been allocated to the six authorities across north Wales to help those owner-occupiers and landlords bring sub-standard homes back into use. To date, over 350 loans have been issued, and nearly 300 empty properties have been brought back into use across north Wales as a result of that funding alone. But I agree that we need to be looking to explore what more we can do. And of course, we've introduced the transforming towns empty property fund of £3.2 million, and that's supporting a project operating across an area within Gwynedd and Anglesey; that seeks, again, to bring those empty properties back into use. By the end of December 2020, we will have produced a finalised national action plan for tackling empty properties, setting out our national and local objectives, and that's a piece of work that I have discussions on with my colleague the Minister for Housing and Local Government. More widely, we're looking at what we can do to support local authorities through better use of compulsory purchase orders, because some of those properties that could provide excellent homes and excellent properties for other purposes are ones that are a real blight on communities at the moment. So, we're making sure that every local authority has the skills and the confidence it needs to tackle empty properties in Wales. We're doing that by introducing an industry expert in the field of property management, who is delivering a series of training events to every single local authority in Wales.
Welsh: Mae gan raglen benthyciadau eiddo Llywodraeth Cymru gymysgedd o gyllid grant cyfalaf a chyllid benthyciad ad-daladwy gwerth dros £42 miliwn, ar gael drwy awdurdodau lleol i berchen-feddianwyr er mwyn gwella eiddo a gwneud defnydd newydd o'r eiddo gwag hwnnw. Mae £11 miliwn ohono wedi'i ddyrannu i'r chwe awdurdod ledled gogledd Cymru i helpu'r perchen-feddianwyr a'r landlordiaid hynny i wneud defnydd o gartrefi is-safonol unwaith eto. Hyd yn hyn, mae dros 350 o fenthyciadau wedi'u cyhoeddi, ac mae bron i 300 eiddo gwag yn cael eu defnyddio unwaith eto ar draws gogledd Cymru o ganlyniad i'r arian hwnnw'n unig. Ond rwy'n cytuno bod angen inni ystyried beth arall y gallwn ei wneud. Ac wrth gwrs, rydym wedi cyflwyno cronfa eiddo gwag o £3.2 miliwn fel rhan o'n hagenda trawsnewid trefi, ac mae honno'n cefnogi prosiect sy'n gweithredu ar draws ardal yng Ngwynedd ac Ynys Môn; unwaith eto, ei nod yw ceisio gwneud defnydd o eiddo gwag. Erbyn diwedd mis Rhagfyr 2020, byddwn wedi cynhyrchu cynllun gweithredu cenedlaethol terfynol ar gyfer mynd i'r afael ag eiddo gwag a fydd yn nodi ein hamcanion cenedlaethol a lleol, ac mae hwnnw'n waith rwy'n ei drafod gyda fy nghyd-Aelod, y Gweinidog Tai a Llywodraeth Leol. Yn fwy cyffredinol, rydym yn edrych ar yr hyn y gallwn ei wneud i gefnogi awdurdodau lleol drwy ddefnydd gwell o orchmynion prynu gorfodol, gan y gallai rhai o'r adeiladau a fyddai'n gallu bod yn gartrefi rhagorol ac eiddo rhagorol at ddibenion eraill fod yn falltod gwirioneddol ar gymunedau ar hyn o bryd. Felly, rydym yn sicrhau bod gan bob awdurdod lleol y sgiliau a'r hyder angenrheidiol i fynd i'r afael ag eiddo gwag yng Nghymru. Rydym yn gwneud hynny drwy gyflwyno arbenigwr diwydiant ym maes rheoli eiddo, sy'n darparu cyfres o ddigwyddiadau hyfforddi i bob awdurdod lleol unigol yng Nghymru.