Conrad Watkins, director of Cyrenians Cymru, a Swansea-based charity has never been one to pull his punches when fighting on behalf of the socially disadvantaged. His comments made in the lead up to a court hearing into the death of a homeless woman in Swansea’s High Street from a heroin overdose administered by a friend were as uncompromising as ever.
As he stated at the time, the situation for street homelessness is claimed to be “one emergency bed in a laundry room for a city of 220,000 people. I cannot think of another city with such low resources for people at the sharp end of poverty.”
Not too long ago, a similar damning verdict would have been readily delivered by the Lib Dem’s housing spokesman in the Welsh Assembly - also a member of Swansea Council. But not any more it seems.
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