Given the politics of Britishness at the moment, the Welsh Government are consulting on a relatively minor but potentially brave proposal to amend the eligibility regulations for housing allocation and […]
The Crime and Policing Act 2026 is coming into force later this month. This is Westminster legislation that affects the housing system in Wales as it is concerned with ASB […]
I have been thinking about the Tenant Satisfaction Survey data published by the WG on 10th September, and reported by Inside Housing on 25th September. The WG have said that […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Apologies for the lack of posting last week (I was away). This week, there are obviously other considerations and we will be watching the news with bated breath as so […]
Health and safety in housing is rarely out of the news, and something which I have covered on this blog quite a bit. A while ago, I was involved in […]
In the absence of the Labour manifesto (the links are to a blank page at the moment), and Plaid manifesto, this post simply concerns the Plaid first 100 days plan […]