@mattydicks.bsky.social
Arguing daily that adequate housing should be a universal right in law! #CardiffcityFC. Proud Dad. My views are my own.
A missed opportunity!
If not now, then when?
@cihcymru.bsky.social @taipawb.bsky.social and @sheltercymru.bsky.social - #Backthebill campaign response to Welsh Government's response to White Paper on Housing Adequacy and Fair rents - www.taipawb.org/news-story/b...
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For #RuralHousingWeek, CIH Cymru’s Cerys Clark explores the impact of high-density areas of second homes with a lack of social rent homes ➡️ buff.ly/tQo30Ie
07.07.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 CIH Cymru has welcomed the publication of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill, which sets out a new building safety regime in Wales focussing on the occupation and ongoing management of multi-occupied residential buildings.
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Around the nations.....what the spending review means in your neck of the woods.
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Cognitive dissonance? EU funding delivered £5.3billion to Wales, mostly to South Wales Valleys:
- 71,100 new jobs;
- 18,600 businesses;
- 115,200 people into work;
- £7million to regenrate Merthyr town centre
Yet they want the man who turned off the funding tap?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shafted is the word that springs to mind! East-West rail plan 'reclassified', denying Wales funding - MP - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unlikely the people of Clacton'll benefit! But people-smuggling gangs/paedophiles/terrorists/hackers already do as crypto makes it easier to launder money, sell child porn, receive blackmail payments....oh and receive politcal donations from foreign actors?
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Look past the ridiculous clichés in the opening paragraph of @housingtoday.bsky.social's 'Spotlight on the Welsh social housing sector' and there's some very interesting thoughts on the housing emergency in Wales.
Read the full article on their website ➡️ www.housingtoday.co.uk/in-focus/nat...
Ticked off the bucket list!
22.05.2025 07:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We welcome the publication of Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill. and its proposed wide reaching changes to homelessness legislation in Wales. Adequate resources are needed to ensure homelessness in Wales is rare brief and unrepeated.
Read our statement here: bit.ly/4dovjPj
We are seeking views on our draft manifesto and housing strategy for Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd elections. If you would like to provide your views please email cerys.clark@cih.org by 5pm on 30th May.
Access the manifesto here: buff.ly/u6iyP2L and the housing strategy here: buff.ly/ClT7cLi
The view from today's office window.
16.05.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The affordable housing taskforce's report is published. CIH Cymru welcomes recommendations to overcome barriers to development in Wales. Yet it does not call for a national housing strategy to ensure a whole system approach to ending the housing emergency
More details here: buff.ly/y7gdHxn
The orderlies and cleaners, who cleaned the ward and brought me my food, were all imigrants, from Afghanistan and Africa.
The cardiology doctor who did my recent check up was also an immigrant.
"a squalid chapter for our politics"? Really!
When I had my heart attack two years ago, the two cardiologists I saw were from Portugal and India.
Half the nurses that cared form me were from East Asia, mainly from the Phillipines and Singpore. Of the remaing nurses who treated me, half were 2nd/3rd generation immigrants from South Asia.
History teaches us that the stories of leaders and political movements, whose constituency is rooted in division, rarely end well and, more often than not, take their country down with them!
02.05.2025 08:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
During today's Senedd Plenary Counsel General and Minister for Delivery Julie James confirmed that the new homelessness bill and the new building safety bill will be introduced to the Senedd before the Summer recess. You can access the session here: buff.ly/pJLSTgc
29.04.2025 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
With a year to go of this Senedd term, WHQ asked a range of different contributors for their views on Welsh Government’s target of 20,000 new low carbon social homes. Can it be met? What more can be done? And what should come next?
whq.org.uk/the-magazine...
Giving Putin exactly what he wants.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The very definition of reaping what you sow!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The root cause of the housing crisis across Europe - the finacialisation of the housing market - the treatment of homes as financial assets rather than places to live, driven by the global capital markets and financial institutions - NOT immigration!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The starting gun is about to be fired on the campaign leading into next year's Senedd elections, and it looks like providing everyone in Wales with a safe, affordable and sustainable place to call home will be a key battleground.
nation.cymru/opinion/hous...
No.11 on political scientist Dr Lawrence Britt's 14 characteristics of fascism:
"Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested....."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#whataboutPortTalbot!
12.04.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
