The Welsh Housing Monitor is like an audit of where we are in Wales, or (as it states in the introduction) the state of the housing nation and, one should […]
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 […]
We now have the Green Party manifesto and the Plaid one. Being a housing nerd, I'm focusing solely on how they deal with housing issues. And, the interesting thing about […]
Any reader of this blog will recognise my common anxiety about the lack of housing law expertise in Wales and what this might mean for social and private landlords, tenants, […]
This is a bit of a holding post. I know that The manifesto posts need to be completed (as well as commentary on them by other organisations - eg here) […]
If you've been following the blog this year, you will know that I have been trying to obtain data on the use of homelessness internal reviews in Wales. I have […]
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, […]
Happy new year. In the last post of 2025, I considered whether Wales should have a general enforcement duty on local authorities as England will do after implementation of the […]
In principle, targets are not a bad thing. They offer a measurable way of judging performance. They can be missed, of course; but, in principle, targets should be achievable and […]
This blog has been going for just over a year now, the first post being on 12th November. If you have any comments, please do email me. If you have […]