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Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill – Deep Dive 5

Posted on 12 September 2025 by David Cowan

I had a lovely break, thank you for asking; back now and raring to go.  I was going to post a more academic thing about whether there is such a […]

Student housing – Codes of Management Practice

Posted on 18 July 2025 by David Cowan

This is the second post inspired by the HousingView Team(the very brilliant Justin Bates and Andrew Dymond) which produce a weekly newsletter about housing law and which also carries news about […]

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill – Deep Dive 4

Posted on 27 June 2025 by David Cowan

This deep dive into the Bill concerns the provision of temporary accommodation to homeless applicants while their application is being considered.  This is called "interim accommodation".  Such accommodation is required […]

Poverty in Wales 2025

Posted on 20 June 2025 by David Cowan

Last week, I attended an online presentation of a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Bevan Foundation about poverty in Wales.  It was pretty depressing, and the climate […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Compensation for no-fault eviction

Posted on 16 May 2025 by David Cowan

I blogged about the Senedd’s Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector (“PRS”) late last year.  One of the recommendations in that report was that The Welsh […]

Welsh Housing Survey

Posted on 16 May 2025 by David Cowan

Approaches to policy-making can be driven from a range of different directions.  We can see that from the Trump administration and the UK response to the issues raised by Reform's […]

Community led housing

Posted on 9 May 2025 by David Cowan

Although I'm mildly sceptical about community led housing, there is a really interesting blog post by Claire White on the Cwmpas blog that is well worth reading about trying to […]