, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 5
Thanks, Ben. Orla wants to come in, Chair, I think.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 5
Okay, thanks.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 5
Okay.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 5
Before we move on to other people responding to that, just on that issue of landlords, perhaps, at times, kicking tenants out without that notice, would they be less likely to do that if the supply-and-demand issue was much more balanced? I guess the issue at…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 5
Thanks, Chair, and good morning, everybody. Thanks for being with us. It's really appreciated. So, you've presented a few issues and challenges at the moment. Wouldn't most of it get sorted if there were more houses being built?
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
Thank you, Minister, for your statement this afternoon. I want to pick up on a point that Mabon ap Gwynfor started to press on, which is around house building and more properties being built in our communities, and you're exactly right, where there are…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I'll focus on rail just for a moment—an issue affecting, of course, my residents in north Wales. Recent figures unveiled by S4C's Y Byd ar Bedwar programme showed that the Welsh Labour Government's rail provider, Transport for Wales, had had…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
All right. Thanks, Chair.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
I wonder if Ceri has anything from your side. Ceri.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
I know that time is running away. The mention of letting agencies there just prompted my thoughts. I don't know if you have any evidence, or any trend that you're seeing in terms of older people, and the, perhaps, distant landlord issues as well, and having…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
Can I ask a really quick question?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
Okay, thank you. And then the final question from me is in relation to the quality of the houses or spaces that tenants are living in. There's data that suggests that disrepair and environmental hazards are more common in the private rental sector than other…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
Okay, thank you. Was there anything you wanted to add to that, Ceri?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
All right. Thanks, Chair. And then, just trying to press a bit further on this issue around affordability, because I obviously appreciate you must have lots of older people coming to you, seeking support and help around affordability. I'm just trying to get…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
Okay. Thanks, Ceri. And—[Inaudible.] Certainly.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
Okay. Thanks. Ceri, is there anything you want to add from your side at all?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 4
Thanks, Chair. Good morning. Thanks for taking the time to be with us here today. I just want to pick up, Becky, your point that I think you mentioned on affordability for renters, particularly for older people. I'm aware that the state pension, since 2010…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair. Just reflecting on the hour-long evidence that we've received, I guess, for some of you, you've probably sat in front of this committee, or similar committees, or had similar sessions in the past, and I just wonder whether, collectively, as…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Thank you, Chair.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
All right. Do you want to say anything, Matt?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Before Matt perhaps jumps in—I don't know if you do—I'm just wondering how much these points are challenges for local authorities, especially with their environmental health teams, because if they do find an issue in a property, and somebody needs to not be…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Okay, thank you. Serena, I think you wanted to comment as well.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Okay. David, do you want to say anything further? No, fine, okay. Serena, anything from your side? No, okay. Lovely. And then the last one from me, and I do have some thoughts on the comments you've made there, Matt, but I don't want to go down a rabbit hole…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Do you think that they just don't see it as a valuable part of the mix?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Clearly, the Government would probably sit here and say that the reason why they're struggling with the volumes in the social rent sector is constraints around the public purse and challenges there. But in terms of the build-to-rent sector, you've got…
