{"id":1182779,"date":"2026-09-02T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1182779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:45:25","slug":"in-the-news-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1182779\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news, August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The launch of our new report on holiday lets attracted significant media coverage for the Bevan Foundation throughout August<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>August saw the launch of our latest report,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bevanfoundation.org\/resources\/holidays-or-homes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Holidays or homes? The loss of homes for the people of Wales to holiday accommodation<\/a>. The report, launched at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bevanfoundation.org\/news\/2026\/08\/holidays-or-homes-eisteddfod\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Eisteddfod<\/a> y Garreg Las, received coverage in media outlets including <a href=\"https:\/\/businessnewswales.com\/think-tank-calls-for-greater-controls-on-homes-being-turned-into-holiday-accommodation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business News Wales<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/26442586.call-action-second-homes-housing-emergency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Wales Argus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2026\/08\/07\/welsh-holiday-homes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Canary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehousing.co.uk\/home\/thinktank-urges-welsh-government-to-curb-number-of-homes-turned-into-holiday-lets-98294\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Housing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/news\/welsh-think-tank-calls-on-government-to-clamp-down-on-second-homes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nation.Cymru<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LBCNewsWales\/status\/2085751570461790702\" rel=\"nofollow\">LBC News Wales<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/willhaywardwales.substack.com\/p\/wales-watching-the-midweek-briefing-764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Will Hayward Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/herald.wales\/welsh-government\/greater-national-controls-needed-on-the-number-of-homes-being-turned-into-holiday-accommodation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Wales<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightsnet.org.uk\/now\/post\/72291\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rightsnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Bevan Foundation team also appeared on broadcast media to discuss the findings from the report. Senior Policy and Research Officer, Wendy Dearden, was heard on Global radio stations while Head of Policy (Poverty), Mabli Jones, appeared on BBC Radio Cymru and S4C\u2019s Newyddion.<\/p>\n<p>Our CEO, Steffan Evans, was seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/p0p03jtp\/pawb-ai-farn-rhaglen-wed-05-aug-2026-2155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S4C\u2019s Pawb a\u2019i Farn<\/a> from the Eisteddfod. Alongside panellists Dafydd Trystan Davies MS, Carwyn Jones and Bethan Kilfoil, Steffan talked about the holiday lets report as well as other areas of the Bevan Foundation\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost of living<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cost of living continues to hit families across Wales, and news of high inflation and the rise in the price cap on gas and electricity costs has dominated headlines this summer.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Bevan Foundation\u2019s CEO, Steffan Evans appeared on BBC Radio Wales, S4C, and BBC Radio Cymru several times throughout August to discuss the impact of high costs and the Bevan Foundation\u2019s work to tackle poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The launch of our new report on holiday lets attracted significant media coverage for the Bevan Foundation throughout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1182780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,48241,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1182779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wales","tag-britain","tag-great-britain","tag-media-coverage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117202460512471914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}