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Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill – Stage 4

Posted on 20 February 2026 by David Cowan

I should have noted this last week, but the Bill went through its Stage 4 process (Welsh here) last week.  That means that the Bill has passed its stages in […]

Crisis, what(‘s the purpose of) crisis?

Posted on 13 February 2026 by David Cowan

With a Cardiff Colleague, Professor Basham, I have been editing a collection of papers for publication in the Journal of Law and Society, under the rubric: "Dysfunctional Governance: Crisis, Scandal, […]

Neurodivergent children in temporary accommodation

Posted on 23 January 2026 by David Cowan

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 […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill

Posted on 23 January 2026 by David Cowan

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 […]

Homelessness Internal Reviews Survey

Posted on 23 January 2026 by David Cowan

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 […]

Homelessness internal reviews and appeals

Posted on 28 November 2025 by David Cowan

A short post to say that, having thought about this quite a bit since I posted on housing justice, I am planning to delve a little deeper in to homelessness […]

Homelessness and WBFG

Posted on 21 November 2025 by David Cowan

I have been thinking a lot recently (never a good sign) about how brilliant the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act ("WBFG") is, and what it means for us.  This is […]

A smorgasbord

Posted on 24 October 2025 by David Cowan

There is lots of interesting stuff going on at the moment, and it is, of course, an important political moment.  This post is a bit of a smorgasbord of relevant […]

Housing asylum-seekers

Posted on 3 October 2025 by David Cowan

There is so much loathesome, hateful stuff around at the moment that it is difficult to know where to start sometimes, and I cannot pretend that the narratives in play […]

The temporary accommodation problem

Posted on 19 September 2025 by David Cowan

As we head inexorably down into the election spiral, with all its anxieties, one of the conclusions to which I have been drawn over the years is that housing issues/problems/crises […]