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Holding post …

Posted on 20 February 2025 by David Cowan

Apologies but I've had the dreaded lurgy this week and have just about managed to do my teaching but not write a post.  I plan a post about a Housing […]

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Coastal 2

Posted on 14 February 2025 by David Cowan

The first post on this blog concerned the blockbuster judgment in Coastal Housing Group v Mitchell.  In short, it will be remembered that contract-holders who were not served with electrical condition reports […]

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Local housing allowance

Posted on 14 February 2025 by David Cowan

I suspect that there is not much a lawyer could find that interesting about individual subsidy, but this week the coalescence of housing law and policy is the focus of […]

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While Rome burns …

Posted on 7 February 2025 by David Cowan

It has been a pretty depressing and stressful week at Cardiff University.  The financial model of higher education across the UK has been broken for a while, and colleagues in […]

 

Cross-referencing

Posted on 31 January 2025 by David Cowan

In the spirit of blogocracy, I plan also to signpost to other blogs where issues of relevance to Wales are discussed.  Here is a non-inclusive list: The Housing Studies Association […]

Poverty and housing (and questions about “Help to Stay”)

Posted on 31 January 2025 by David Cowan

Two reports have caught my attention this week and they overlap in terms of tone and content.  The first report is the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Poverty in the […]

Universal Credit diversionary/recoupment payments to landlords

Posted on 24 January 2025 by David Cowan

Nearly Legal has written up the important JR in Roberts v SSWP EWHC 51 (Admin), a decision of Fordham J (Links to NL's blog).  I'm not going to repeat that discussion, […]

Housing Justice in a Time of Austerity?

Posted on 24 January 2025 by David Cowan

In this more reflective blog, I want to pick up on something I wrote a while ago about decision-making and the lack of challenge.  The title to this blog picks […]

Thinking about the private rented sector – redux

Posted on 17 January 2025 by David Cowan

The Senedd's Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector (about which I blogged on 6th December) was debated in plenary session.  It provides an interesting moment […]

Home: The Key to Hope / Cartref: Yr Allwedd i Obaith

Posted on 10 January 2025 by David Cowan

I attended the inspirational opening of this amazing Crisis exhibition, curated by South Wales Skylight and Sponsored by Julie James (the former cabinet secretary for housing, now the Leader of […]

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