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Housing for Wales or housing for the Welsh?

Jac — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:50:12 +0000

PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I’M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ We are confronted by a paradox. The stock of housing in Wales is growing, yet less and …

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Phil Parry, a reply

Jac — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:40:23 +0000

Following Phil Parry’s latest attack on me I asked for the right to reply, but he hasn’t responded. I’d prefer to ignore the irritating little git but he is now making serious and misleading allegations that have to be answered. Not only that, but his latest piece, on Tuesday, was – by my reckoning – …

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Llais y Sais

Jac — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 21:00:13 +0000

HORNY TEACHER ‘OF TREGARON’ Whilst relaxing over a coffee a while back, and reading Llais y Sais, mine eyes alighted upon the report you see below. Straightforward enough, a story we read all too regularly; horny young teacher gets involved with pupil. This report in Llais y Sais suggests that the accused, Christopher Wood, “lives in Tregaron” and …

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Human Trafficking

Jac — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 20:00:20 +0000

PEMBROKESHIRE CARE AND CYMDEITHAS GOFAL Human trafficking is a term we’ve become increasingly familiar with in recent years, it’s a clandestine and largely illegal activity that reduces human beings to transferable commodities, to be moved around and exploited for the financial benefit of some third party. Many people will be surprised therefore to learn that …

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Housing Associations: Secret or Public?

Jac — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 22:22:54 +0000

It’s difficult to know where to start with this rather complex story. Maybe we should go back to 2008 and the Welsh Housing Quality Standard, presented as an attempt to improve the standard of social housing. The WHQS was in fact nothing more than the Decent Homes Standard that operated in England. Another example of ‘Welsh’ …

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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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Social Housing Back to Council Control?

Jac — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:04:13 +0000

THE TRAVAILS OF CANTREF Over the years I have written exhaustively on housing associations, I’ve explained the funding they receive, their staffing levels, and the fact that at a time when politicians argue our 22 local authorities must be cut to 8 or 9 those same politicians are quite content to see Wales lumbered with …

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I Must Be Doing Something Right!

Jac — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:09:57 +0000

I had hoped to have a few days off after posting my previous piece but would you believe it – Wales Eye is having a pop at me again, this time helped by the Wasting Mule. It began – though I had no way of knowing it at the time – with a Twitter message …

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