Bevan Foundation debate
Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 11:20am
3 responses
Tuesday Debates
Is there a new housing crisis in Wales?
Tuesday, 24th February 2009
6 – 7.30 pm (Tea / coffee from 5.30 pm)
Conference Room 24, Ty Hywel, National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff
Speakers:
Owain Llewellyn, RICS
Peter Hughes, Chairman, Council of Mortgage Lenders in Wales
Nick Bennett, Community Housing Cymru
Tamsin Stirling, Editor Welsh Housing Quarterly
Kindly hosted by Bethan Jenkins AM
All welcome. Attendance is free but please register at events@bevanfoundation.org
answer has to be an emphatic YES!!! will not be able to attend the meeting myself but i wonder if any of the participants will dare suggest the revolutionary idea of councils actually building council houses again???
Radical stuff i know but worth a try eh??? I think bevan would have approved of the suggestion!!!
“i wonder if any of the participants will dare suggest the revolutionary idea of councils actually building council houses again???”
This idea was suggested by an attendee from UCATT and got support from the room. It was a very productive and positive event. Good to see Jocelyn Davies there – a listening Minister.
Yes it would be nice if councils could build afforadble homes again!
However they are short changed so much by the WAG that they don’t have the resources to keep the present stock up.
And then there are the schools, and don’t get me started on that one.
Devolution does not stop at Cardiff Bay!