It has been a pretty depressing and stressful week at Cardiff University. The financial model of higher education across the UK has been broken for a while, and colleagues in […]
In the spirit of blogocracy, I plan also to signpost to other blogs where issues of relevance to Wales are discussed. Here is a non-inclusive list: The Housing Studies Association […]
Two reports have caught my attention this week and they overlap in terms of tone and content. The first report is the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Poverty in the […]
Nearly Legal has written up the important JR in Roberts v SSWP EWHC 51 (Admin), a decision of Fordham J (Links to NL's blog). I'm not going to repeat that discussion, […]
In this more reflective blog, I want to pick up on something I wrote a while ago about decision-making and the lack of challenge. The title to this blog picks […]
The Senedd's Local Government and Housing Committee report on the private rented sector (about which I blogged on 6th December) was debated in plenary session. It provides an interesting moment […]
I attended the inspirational opening of this amazing Crisis exhibition, curated by South Wales Skylight and Sponsored by Julie James (the former cabinet secretary for housing, now the Leader of […]
This is just a short post to draw attention to the Office for National Statistics most recent bulletin on rents and house prices. The average rent in GB was 9.1% […]
Back in September 2024, Jayne Bryan (the Cabinet Secretary for Housing) laid a Legislative Consent Memorandum before the Senedd seeking consent for certain provisions of the Westminster government's Renters' Rights […]
I've been listening to Dan Hewitt's podcast, The Trapped, this week. It's a pretty depressing listen and, in a way, it tells us nothing we don't already know. What is […]