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Wales and West, Labour’s In-House Housing Association

Jac — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:00:21 +0000

If you read this blog regularly you’ll know about the takeover of Cantref, a housing association based in Newcastle Emlyn, by Wales and West Housing of Cardiff, a company with strong links to the Labour Party. For those catching up, I advise starting with the post Cantref: ‘Welsh’ Labour Takeover Challenged? To give some chronological marker, …

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Housing Associations – All Change?

Jac — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:42:40 +0000

I sense that changes are taking place in our housing associations. Maybe someone, somewhere, has at last realised that pouring obscene amounts of public money into fifty or so bodies, many of them overstaffed and / or inefficient may not be the best way of meeting the need for rented accommodation. In England, the process …

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Updates, etc: Cardigan Castle, Organ Harvesting, Overseas Aid Programme, Housing Associations, Labour Leadership Contest

Jac — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:04:11 +0000

CARDIGAN CASTLE I don’t want anyone to think I’m picking on the women running and wrecking the Cardigan Castle project (nor would I want anyone to think I plan on ignoring them!) but I couldn’t write this post without a mention of developments since my previous post. Here’s a selection. Someone informed me that at …

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