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Shayne Hembrow

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

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…mismatch between the housing that we need to provide if we're going to address the number of people in temporary accommodation and the homes that are being built by the private sector or by the social sector. And if you look over the last 10 years, only about 10 per cent of the homes that have been…

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Steven Bletsoe

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

Digartrefedd - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2

Coming from a PRS point of view, if you carry on the route that you've charted the last 10 years, you'll have the same problem in 10 years' time if not worse. There needs to be—and it's a phrase used—more of the right houses in the right places for the right people. Planning law and legislation…

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Sam RowlandsCeidwadwyr

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

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Yes. Thanks, Chair, and thanks for those responses. Just going back to the point, then, of housing supply, and not just within recent months or even recent years but looking back over perhaps the last 10 years, what have been those main barriers, do you think, to ensuring that social, affordable or…

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Dr Steffan Evans

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

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…longer to find alternative accommodation for someone. So, in theory, it should reduce pressure on temporary accommodation because you have more time to avoid that person ending up there. But what we've heard from quite a few local authorities—and COVID in a way acted as a bit of a pilot here…

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Matthew Dicks

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

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Yes, as Steven says, implementation hasn't been great, not least the sunset clause, but also getting the regs out and the contracts out has been delayed, which is why we had to delay it. So, that hasn't helped and has spooked the market probably more than it needed to be. But it's happening at a…

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Steven Bletsoe

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

Digartrefedd - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2

…want to provide a service to an industry that needs it at the minute. We're discussing people living in temporary accommodation. The PRS wants to support those people. They want to provide good houses. They need them provided to them. But when you come in with that sunset clause change at the very…

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Sam RowlandsCeidwadwyr

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

Digartrefedd - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2

Good morning, all. Sorry I couldn't be with you in the room this morning. I really appreciate your time. Just going back—before I move on to some questions about housing supply—to the point made earlier about the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 being perhaps a right thing and a good thing. But I'm…

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Matthew Dicks

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

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…we've been running since 2020 through the pandemic and beyond, surveying local authority housing and homelessness teams, and 75 per cent of them felt that their mental well-being had decreased since January 2020 because of the increased pressures the pandemic caused in terms of housing people. I…

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Shayne Hembrow

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

Digartrefedd - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2

…make a little bit of a plea for those staff that work as support workers, particularly for people in temporary accommodation. That has got worse as people are spending increasingly longer time in temporary accommodation, then their stress and their anxiety increases and, therefore, the people…

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Allan Eveleigh

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

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Yes, definitely. We're finding increasing challenges within our general needs housing stock. The direct lets to people facing homelessness, whilst I absolutely understand the reasons for it and agree with them, are putting challenges on some of our neighbourhoods and our communities, because the…

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Carolyn ThomasLlafur

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

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That's really important to know as well. We've discussing that as a solution. Thank you. And then my second question is about housing staff, the strain this is putting on housing staff. So, would you like to respond to that?

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Allan Eveleigh

24 Tachwedd 2022, Local Government and Housing Committee

Digartrefedd - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2

I suppose the only thing that comes to mind is the transitional accommodation capital programme funding for RSLs purchasing some of those properties that are becoming available from the private rented sector. Obviously, we're a trusted pair of hands in terms of, potentially, managing some of that…

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