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The need for agency staff to identify and assist with the housing issues of their clients is underscored.

This paper presents an interdisciplinary investigation into local scale case studies from across rural food and drink-based activities including microenterprises that produce and widen markets for local foods and drinks including food tourism initiatives. Case study analysis is used to investigate first, how entrepreneurship may translate policy into means of addressing a range of social and economic challenges of rural communities in Wales and second, the broader contributions that rural entrepreneurship and social enterprises have made in delivering sustainable local food and drink-based initiatives that have broader community value added. The context for case study analysis includes discourse on equitable and appropriate development, partnership working and community decision making and empowerment within the governance framework of One Planet Wales Sustainable Development commitment. This analysis is timely given current directions in European funding towards broader rural development and the promotion of food and drink heritage based rural tourism by Welsh Government as a tool of choice for ensuring rural wellbeing.

This research explored the intersection between participants' parenting role and housing difficulties, in rural communities. Thirteen parents were recruited from drug and alcohol and mental health agencies in rural Australia. Transcripts were analysed using content analysis, along with inter-rater reliability. The quandary of gaining access to their children while living in inadequate housing was indicated. Participants also described the 'spiral' nature of problems, highlighting the interrelated nature of mental illness, substance use, housing difficulties and losing access to children. The impacts of housing problems on parenting roles and children were described as well as those supports considered to be useful in obtaining appropriate housing. Living in rural areas where 'everyone knew everyone' made it difficult for some to obtain housing. The need to address housing, parenting, mental illness and substance abuse as interrelated, rather than as singular issues is highlighted.

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