The site provides information, updates and discussion on Welsh housing and homelessness law.
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Impact for Urban Health have just published guidance for English local authorities regarding the needs of neurodiverse children living in temporary accommodation, but the Guidance does rather more than that […]
Just a short note to highlight the important Senedd Local Government and Housing follow-up inquiry in to social housing supply. On 21st January 2026, there were hearings in which, in […]
This Bill trundles its way through the legislative process. The inestimable Jennie Bibbings has provided a great summary of the changes made at and following the Stage 2 proceedings before […]
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 has provisions relating to discrimination which are intended to apply in Wales (which I have highlighted here and here). The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (Commencement) […]
As prefaced at the end of last year, I have today sent out emails to all our local authorities seeking data and views about the internal review process in homelessness […]
Happy new year. In the last post of 2025, I considered whether Wales should have a general enforcement duty on local authorities as England will do after implementation of the […]
In this post, I want to return to something which has troubled me, and continues to trouble me. Rightly, I think, in Wales, we consider ourselves to be progressive in […]
A short note to highlight a really important paper about civil legal advice deserts in Wales by Claire Thomas in the Senedd research team. It is a corruscating indictment of […]
In principle, targets are not a bad thing. They offer a measurable way of judging performance. They can be missed, of course; but, in principle, targets should be achievable and […]
