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David Cowan

David Cowan

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.

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Programme for Government 2026-30 – The housing bits

Posted on 25 September 2026 by David Cowan

On Wednesday, the WG published its Programme for Government 2026-30.  In many ways, this does not tell us anything more than we knew already.  Housing gets its own page, which […]

Masterclasses in Welsh Housing Law – Another reflection

Posted on 25 September 2026 by David Cowan

At the Masterclasses, I made the point about the lack of litigation on Welsh housing and homelessness law, and the need for more challenges to settle outstanding areas of dispute.  […]

Masterclasses in Welsh Housing Law – Reflection

Posted on 25 September 2026 by David Cowan

I am particularly grateful to Elly Lock and Bryony Hayes of Community Housing Cymru who kindly answered my call for their reflections on the Masterclasses:   Not being a legal […]

Shelter’s People and Homes Conference – 22nd October 2026

Posted on 25 September 2026 by David Cowan

A regular, lovely correspondent has reminded me about Shelter Cymru's gig, People and Homes, on 22nd October at the Marriott.  The programme looks really interesting and I am told that […]

Migration and housing – Senedd Research

Posted on 18 September 2026 by David Cowan

I’ve been buzzing since last week’s housing law masterclasses, and the goodwill in the room as well as outside it.  Thank you for the emails, comments, and follow-ups.  As I […]

Masterclasses – Attendee Blog?

Posted on 16 September 2026 by David Cowan

I just wondered if anybody who came to the Masterclasses last week would like to write a blog entry here on what, if anything, they got out of it.  As […]

Masterclasses in Welsh Housing Law: Instant reflections

Posted on 11 September 2026 by David Cowan

There was an unplanned fire alarm 20 mins in, train delays/cancellations (which meant that my old mate and friend of this blog, Justin Bates, was going backwards on his train, […]

A NEET solution?

Posted on 11 September 2026 by David Cowan

With apologies for the awful pun, Community Housing Cymru put out a press release this week about their research into the analysis of trends in Wales about NEETs (ie young […]

Holidays and second homes

Posted on 4 September 2026 by David Cowan

On Wednesday, I was in Scotland at a Housing Conference (report coming up), and serendipitously bumped in to Wendy Dearden, of the Bevan Foundation (we both tried to access the […]

Housing and devolution – A partial conference report

Posted on 4 September 2026 by David Cowan

On Wednesday, I attended the Glasgow Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence conference, Housing Matters: How did we get here and where are we going?.  The event was interrogating what devolution […]