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Temporary accommodation, long-term crisis?

Posted on 25 July 2025 by David Cowan

Audit Wales have just produced what can only be described as a devastating report (using that title) about the use by local authorities of temporary accommodation to meet homelessness applicant's […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill – Deep Dive 3

Posted on 20 June 2025 by David Cowan

So far in these posts, I have focused mostly on the homelessness stuff in the Bill.  Today's post straddles both parts and deals with clauses 10 and 36.  Or, more […]

Asylum-seekers and housing rights

Posted on 13 June 2025 by David Cowan

In this post, I have decided not to publicise or hyperlink to news or media stories but I have become aware of certain aspirational politicians within certain parties who are […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill – Deep Dive 2

Posted on 13 June 2025 by David Cowan

This second deep dive post into the Bill concerns the duty to "ask and act" in clauses 21-2 of the Bill.  These clauses reflect a broader shift in the Bill, […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill: Deep Dive 1

Posted on 6 June 2025 by David Cowan

This is the first of probably a few deep dives into the Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill's clauses, and it is at the behest of somebody who asked me […]

Research into the Implications of the Renting Homes Act 2016 for Refuge Accommodation

Posted on 6 June 2025 by David Cowan

This research report, authored by Helen Carr, Miranda Keast and myself, has now been published.  This blog, in fact, came about in part because a lot of people told us […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill – Addendum

Posted on 22 May 2025 by David Cowan

This is a brief addendum to my post on Tuesday about this Bill to draw your attention to two important developments: You may have received an email informing you that […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill

Posted on 20 May 2025 by David Cowan

This Bill was published yesterday (I'm writing this on Tuesday as off to a conference later), and this is a holding note just to explain what looks like the outstanding […]

Legislation klaxon

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Three new housing Bills were announced for this final year of the current administration by Julie James, Counsel General, on 29th April: homelessness; social housing allocation; and building safety.  The […]

The temporary accommodation crisis

Posted on 27 March 2025 by David Cowan

I have been co-organising a workshop about crises as dysfunctions of government (taking place at Cardiff Law School building), at which there are four papers addressing the housing crisis in […]