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For holiday homes, but during the pandemic issues have exacerbated, prices have shot up and tensions have deepened. it has led to a new wave of protests calling on the welsh government to act, especially in communities where the future of the welsh language is under threat. on the llyn, second homeowners already have to pay an extra 100% in council tax. further increases could follow, as well as planning controls. but some of the owners feel they are being blamed when the real failure is the shortage of affordable housing. we are being used as a scapegoat because of failed national policies. i...

Needed ten years ago"? i'll blame someone else, i'll blame the second homeowners. that's easy to do. the first minister says there are too many second homes in some parts of wales, but is he searching for a scapegoat? well, i never use the language of blame because i don't think that is helpful to anybody and it is not what we are in the business of doing. what we are in the business of doing is trying to make sure that local people and young people in particular have a fair chance to go on living, growing up and contributing in the communities into which they were born. communities which may ...

You're looking for the trigger event. and then as you do that, you look and see, well, say we find four things that are not perfect which, like every building has that. this one thing, it still falls down with the trigger event. you go through all the different combinations. when buildings we've looked at were hit by planes or bombs or things like that, you know what the trigger event was. here you don't know what the trigger event is, and generally speaking, you can't get down to one particular cause unless you can prove that. that's what we'll be doing over a long period of time. >> sorry, a...

Waterproofing. the issue is when water gets into a crack, all concrete cracks, it's made to crack. water gets into a crack. in the north, you worry about it freezing and thawing, because when water freezes it expands and that makes the crack bigger. you also worry about -- [ audio difficulty ] then you can get rust in the reinforcing steel. when rust gets in the reinforcement steel, at first glance it might look like it's really severe, but remember, it's an expanded material. you take a wire brush and you brush off that rust and you might find you only lost a 16th of an inch of a half inch or...

Precipitate the collapse. what you want to do is try to find the trigger. >> if you can hear me, allyn, you've obviously seen the pictures in the "miami herald" from a pool contractor that showed cracks in the concrete, water on the ground there. you know about the 2018 report that was done by the engineer. does any of that raise red flags for you? >> you know, while some of those things -- i've seen things like that in lots of buildings. the bottom line is you have this particular building, and a lot of buildings, you have the building tower and then the first floor and the basement stick out...