The site provides information, updates and discussion on Welsh housing and homelessness law.
It is all free, but it is just our opinions, and NOT legal advice. Please do not ask for advice on individual matters.
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 […]
This is just a short post to draw attention to the Office for National Statistics most recent bulletin on rents and house prices. The average rent in GB was 9.1% […]
Back in September 2024, Jayne Bryan (the Cabinet Secretary for Housing) laid a Legislative Consent Memorandum before the Senedd seeking consent for certain provisions of the Westminster government's Renters' Rights […]
I've been listening to Dan Hewitt's podcast, The Trapped, this week. It's a pretty depressing listen and, in a way, it tells us nothing we don't already know. What is […]
The Senedd's Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector ("PRS"), which was published in October 2024, makes for quite depressing reading. The report reminded me about […]
The Welsh Parliament's Local Government and Housing Committee have issued their long-awaited report on Social Housing Supply. The WG have committed to delivering 20,000 low carbon social homes from 2021-26 and […]
Just a quick reminder to let me know what's going on out there in housing law and policy in Wales. I don't have a handle on everything, and it would […]
I need to say upfront that I'm not a fan of high level thinking about rights and adequacy. It's often pretty banal stuff and leads you into over-promising. The controversy […]
Following on from the post on the Coastal Housing case (about the need for service of electrical condition reports without which rent is not required to be paid), it is […]
This is the first substantive post on this blog, and it's a cracker which will have reverberating implications for housing law and policy in Wales: Coastal Housing Group Ltd v […]
