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, […]
There are little morsels of housing news on which I will report briefly here. First up, there is the new issue of Welsh Housing Quarterly which contains the usual, interesting […]
If rent control interests you, just a short note to point you to this rather impressive piece by the leading* experts on the subject, Alex Marsh and Ken Gibb (* […]
In Plenary on Tuesday, Rhun ap Iorwerth announced new legislation, which included the following statement "the value my Government places on fairness has motivated us to take action to strengthen […]
June was quite a month for housing policy in Wales (and, apologies - I was away last week on a/l). We had an oral statement from Sian Gwenllian which set […]
With a degree of fanfare (at least in housing circles), Caerphilly council announced a new policy of "intermediate rent" which is designed to assist those households on their waiting list […]
Unaccountably, I forgot to deal with the Labour manifesto. This was a slip on my part, not some sort of political statement (which I don't make on this blog). I […]
"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". […]
It is probably necessary to move on after Coastal, but if you will forgive me one last pop at a reflection on it, this is it (after which I will try […]
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 […]