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- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 3 days ago:
This is probably, overall, a welcome change. a couple of thoughts:
The ‘prevention duty’ will increase from 56 days to six months. This gives local authorities much more time to support anyone at risk of homelessness.
the prevention duty arises from the homeless reduction act 2018. before 56 days are up, a local authority must attempt to prevent or relieve homelessness before it can accept main duty (this is the point where a household is placed into temporary accommodation awaiting an offer of permanent accomm)
prevention mainly consists of persuading your landlord or family not to kick you out, or finding somewhere else for you to stay before you become actually homeless
if the 56 days is extended to six months, does this mean an LA can wait that long before accepting main duty? if so expect the homelessness stats to decrease, as nobody is counted as being accepted as homeless before that time is up
The priority need test and intentionality test – which have excluded people from life-saving support for far too long – will be abolished.
interesting as the priority need test is essentially are you more vulnerable than the average bloke, practically excluding all street homeless as to meet the test you generally will have to be under 18, very old or ill, or have dependents. this will entitle a large swathe of potential applicants who will previously have been fobbed off to some aassisstance, which is good. it will also inevitably attract plenty of chancers who would previously have had no hope of getting any help
will also be interesting to see what removing the intentionality test does. one of the main effects of this was to trip up tenants who thought they were doing the right thing when they received an eviction notice by just leaving their home. seems obvious but if they did this before the landlord got a court order, they could be assessed as intentionally homeless because they left without being forced to do so. another one is about evictions due to rent arrears, where if your bank statements showed you could well have paid the rent if you didn’t spend so much on candy crush powerups etc, you would likely be found intentional
all in all probably quite a good development, i don’t mind if it lets a few more blaggers through if help is more accessible to those who need it. but i suspect the increase to six months will actually reduce the number of homeless cases who end up being offered council accomm, and just shuffle them around the private rented market. hope to be wrong about that.
( quotes from https://thewallich.com/news/homelessness-and-social-housing-allocation-wales-bill/ )
- Comment on Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters 1 week ago:
There was no mistake, not sure why the article didn’t include a picture but it wasn’t a typical leaflet, it looks like this
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 1 month ago:
Three weeks into the future. One teeming city. Seven streets gangs. Unlimited criminal opportunity
-gta2 manual
- Comment on Anon is 5'1" 2 months ago:
farenheight
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 3 months ago:
well now you’re just doing it on purpose
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 3 months ago:
i’ll tell you what man i’ll do all that and your dad’s as well if you stop formatting your mundane opinions as headers to try and get people to notice you
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 3 months ago:
using header markdown to make your text enormous is far more obnoxious than saying like
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 3 months ago:
first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one on the internet. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 4 months ago:
times like this i can hardly blame the simulation theorists, if this was a novel you’d throw it at the cat
- Comment on Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs 4 months ago:
this pushed me on to the green bandwagon, signed up today
- Comment on Who owns Britain? The effects of privatisation on the costs of living in the UK 4 months ago:
I know nationalising water right now would cost hundreds of billions
a hundred billion or so is the government’s own line. other more believable opinions suggest this is bollocks
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/27/how-much-would-it-really-cost-to-nationalise-water
https://weownit.org.uk/news/government-100-billion-water-nationalisation
- Comment on NHS surgeon who had his legs removed is jailed for fraud 5 months ago:
neil hopper
what is the opposite of nominative determinism
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
it's not weird but it's also not weird if he isn't into it. amongst my own friend group there's some with siblings or cousins who come along to the pub etc but there's also others who keep their friends compartmentalised, who keep in touch with school friends, work friends, family members, whatever groups entirely seperately
so ask, you have nothing to lose, but don't take it personally if he doesn't like the idea
