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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 […]

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 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 […]

Shared ownership – new code launched

Posted on 6 June 2025 by David Cowan

I'm afraid that I am, and have been for the last 30 years (since I came across it), a shared ownership sceptic.  With my colleagues, I have written fairly extensively […]

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 […]

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 […]

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