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Housing in Wales

Jac — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:30:08 +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 ♦ The title tells you what this week’s article is about. I’m going to look at how the …

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Housing associations: subsidiaries, partners, etc

Jac — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:00:30 +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 ♦ Social housing is an issue I’ve written about many times over the years, and I make no …

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Housing in Colonial Wales: The Sun King teams up with The Godfather

Jac — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 09:00:07 +0000

Let’s begin by setting out my stall: Housing in Wales is dysfunctional, inefficient, corrupt, wasteful of public funding, damaging to Welsh community life, and undermines Welsh nationhood. It’s a great system . . . but not for the Welsh. ∼ LE ROI SOLEIL In an earlier post (scroll down to the section ‘Who will buy . …

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Shorts 16.07.2018 (Well it is summer!)

Jac — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:00:39 +0000

I’m taking a wee break from the Williams-Partridge gang, but I shall return to them, you can count on it. Weep for Wales 6 is already forming itself in the old Jac noggin. But as the Walrus said, The time has come to talk of many things . . . but we shall not stray …

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Anti-Welsh Housing Associations

Jac — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:10:30 +0000

TO RECAP . . . I have written many times about social housing in Wales, and of the many problems created by the more irresponsible housing associations. Here are just a few of the problems: Unlike in Scotland, social housing providers in Wales are tied into an Englandandwales system. This results in our housing associations …

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Mill Bay Homes, Demographic Time Bomb, Police Transfers

Jac — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:35:01 +0000

I present here a trio of very interesting tales. The first is an update on an old favourite, Mill Bay Homes, the publicly-funded private house builder in Pembrokeshire which may now, finally, have gone straight. The second will cheer you up no end, for our wonderful ‘Welsh’ Government has cracked the problem of ‘the demographic …

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Care in the South West (or the lack thereof)

Jac — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:10:57 +0000

CARMARTHENSHIRE, KIDWELLY A few years ago we learnt of the shocking case of the Satanist paedophiles relocated from London to Kidwelly and housed by Grwp Gwalia of Swansea (since merged with Seren to create Pobl). Their trial even made London prints such as the Daily Mail and Guardian. In addition to being a sick and …

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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: 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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Updates & Tit-bits, November 21, 2016

Jac — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:43:06 +0000

SWANSEA Persecution Where better to start than the old home town. (Which still ‘looks the same as I step down from the train, and there to greet me’ – is a welcoming committee from the local Labour Party. ‘Good old Jac’, they cry. Well, laff!) As you may recall, I wrote a while back about the case …

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