Home commencement levels fall to rate last recorded in 2020
Housing minister James Browne has says figures for May 2026 point towards ‘strong momentum’
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Apartment subsidy scheme has spent 70% of budget on just half of its housing target
The €450m Croí Cónaithe (Cities) scheme aimed to deliver 5,000 apartments for homebuyers by 2026
What next after people have to leave State-funded accommodation centres for refugees?
Hundreds of people in State-funded accommodation for asylum seekers have been told they must find their own homes from early July - what will happen to them?
‘Emergency response’ to homeless crisis, including possible no-fault evictions ban, needed, says committee
More than 17,500 people, including 5,604 children, were in emergency accommodation in April, latest figures show
Council says €6m guesthouse will pay for itself due to cost of homeless accommodation
Dublin City Council bought 20-bedroom Avondale House on Gardiner Street in north inner city for emergency housing
Residential Tenancies Board chairman Owen Keegan resigns, two years into five-year term
Former DCC chief said he has ‘done my bit’ at renting watchdog
Tens of thousands of homes expected to follow new public infrastructure projects
The Oireachtas housing committee heard 138 applications were made for funding aimed at unlocking zoned land
Habitat destruction in Ireland almost doubles without any increase in prosecutions
Figures raise questions over staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service, says TD
Developer facing jail benefited from Minister’s planning ruling on same day as sentencing
Sligo developer Cathal O’Connor faces two years in prison for violent assault on three teenagers
Oliver Bond residents are suffering the slow violence of State neglect
A constitutional right to housing would give residents of the inner-city Dublin complex a tool to pursue their rights
Lidl claims planning system is being exploited by rival
Supermarket chain wants measures similar to fast-tracking of large infrastructure projects
School holidays ‘highly challenging’ for thousands of homeless children as rates rise again
Weekly snapshot does not consider overcrowded housing, refuges, couch-surfing, sleeping rough or IPAS
Dublin council chief wanted ‘generational civil servant’ Robert Watt for €280,000-a-year secondment
Former Department of Health secretary general appointed to €280,000 role without competitive process as it was a secondment
Turnout at elections higher than previously thought
Larger register mistakenly used to calculate turnout
‘We must see action’: Resolution of Oliver Bond flats regeneration impasse expected in coming weeks
Minister for Housing James Browne says conditions in inner city complex ‘absolutely atrocious, totally unacceptable’
These figures tell the real story of Fianna Fáil’s impact on housing
In 2020, about half of all houses appeared in an estate agent’s window for sale; in 2025, that figure was fewer than one in three
Number of apartments under construction in Dublin rises, but house building slows
Decisions on planning applications awaited for 13,600 housing units, down from backlog of 34,400
‘Powerful and heartbreaking’: A couch is what Ireland’s homeless children say they want most
Focus Ireland says the desires of children in homelessness accommodation – for more space, better beds and sheets, and that staff don’t shout at them – are ‘very basic’ demands
‘Units’ over people: public housing policy in a nutshell
Government policy, in thrall to the property lobby, supports higher numbers of very profitable smaller units
‘Two of the kids can’t stay overnight’: Mother of seven on her overcrowded Dublin council flat
Dublin woman, who shares a bed with three of her sons, says she has been waiting for a bigger council house for 14 years
Property industry experts weigh in on back-garden modular homes – from tax to potential income
Government’s proposal to exempt free-standing modular homes in back gardens from planning permission continues to generate debate
Council’s Oliver Bond plans would have cost up to €700,000 per flat, housing committee told
Regeneration funds of €20 million still available for complex, senior civil servant tells TDs
Spending on scheme to fix defects in Celtic-Tiger era apartments could be capped
Caps on scheme would be ‘wholly unacceptable’, says Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin
Department of Housing proposes fewer beds in Oliver Bond flats complex in Dublin
Fewer people would be housed in inner-city complex than proposed by city council
The Irish Times view on Oliver Bond House: State has a moral obligation
Residents are entitled to something better than an endless cycle of deferred promises
Residents of decaying Oliver Bond flats to meet Minister after renewal scheme shelved
Oliver Bond Thursday
Thousands told to leave Ipas centres by July as ‘no longer entitled’ to live there
Correspondence issued to 475 families and more than 1,000 single adults with legal right to remain in Ireland
Ireland rejects EU allegations of failure to protect marine habitats
EU commission has given Ireland two months to respond to notice of infringement proceedings on sea life and on plastics pollution
Once-off housing, garden cities and garden sheds
What Ireland needs, by some country mile, is single-occupancy flats
New legislation regulating Airbnb rentals bogged down over planning permission issues
Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns accuses Government of prioritising proposals that would ‘have renters living in sheds’
Ipas head questions claims large numbers are going from direct provision to homelessness
John Harding said ‘vast majority’ of those leaving Ipas accomodation have not needed homeless services
‘Beds in sheds’: Will looser planning rules on garden homes lead to shoddier housing?
Local authorities will be in charge of enforcing building regulations when it comes to modular homes
Government plans to introduce register of short-term lets facing delay
Legislation underpinning reforms, aimed at bringing more Airbnb style properties back to long-term market, still being drafted
Child homelessness up by 19% since last year, new figures show
Number of people in emergency accommodation in Ireland reaches 17,517, another record high
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