The Public Services Ombuds has decided to conduct its own investigation into two unnamed "housing associations" over their response to disrepair, with a focus on damp and mould, in respect […]
"It's entirely clear, isn't it, that we are in a housing crisis—thousands of people waiting for social housing; families, children and young people living in temporary accommodation or facing homelessness". […]
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 […]
The PSOW has issued two public interest reports on Trivallis which have found broader systemic issues in their record keeping and repairs service, failure to follow their policies, breach of […]
In last week's post on what I have called Coastal 2 (inaccurately, perhaps, as Coastal has since changed its name to Beacon Cymru Group Ltd), I set out the headline […]
This blog is about what I have dubbed "Coastal 2". To recap: in Coastal 1, the High Court found that those RSLs which had failed to provide electrical condition reports […]
For various reasons over the last 30 years (more or less), I have been taking an interest in the administrative justice space that affects housing. That includes stuff around local […]
At some point in February, Rent Smart Wales put out their most recent newsletter. For those of you not in the know, Rent Smart Wales is the organisation, run out […]
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 […]
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 […]