Parties clash on future of Help to Buy scheme which Sinn Féin plans to abolish
Labour and Sinn Féin claim scheme has inflationary effect, increasing price of housing for first time buyers
Eoin Ó Broin
‘Inane’ and ‘factually incorrect’: Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil trade accusations on housing policy
Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien wrote to Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin taking aim at the party’s key affordable housing policy and Mr Ó Broin responded
Bulging veins, tossed leaflets and ‘complete violence’: politicians canvassing for general election take precautions amid safety fears
‘You just don’t know who’s going to open that door to you’: canvassers are wary of growing hostility when they knock at houses
Dublin Mid-West constituency profile: Bellwether will show if voters are moving to anti-immigrant candidates
Election 2024: Sinn Féin hopeful of gaining two seats despite dwindling poll numbers
Running From Office by Eoghan Murphy: a fine memoir built on a flimsy political career
Eoin Ó Broin reviews a former Fine Gael minister’s Confessions of Ambition and Failure in Politics
Homelessness in Ireland hits record high of 14,760 people
Child homelessness rises 17% in last year, Department of Housing data shows
Failure to set out intentions clearly may have hurt Sinn Féin, says Ó Broin
Dublin Mid-West TD says he is pleased with reaction to Sinn Féin’s housing plan
Sinn Féin focuses on ‘just a certain proportion’ of housing market’, says Glenveagh chief
Housing company sees order book hit €1.4bn says it remains on track to complete 2,700 units this year
Housing fight for Sinn Féin will be convincing voters to ditch Government schemes
Sinn Féin’s housing plan is nothing if not detailed, but voters may be cautious of untested solutions
Sinn Féin’s €39bn housing plan: affordable homes from €250,000, freezing rents and 300,000 new units in five years
Plan includes provision for 125,000 units that would be State-provided social and affordable housing
Ireland’s housing crisis ‘on a different level’ with population growing at nearly four people for every new home built
Housing crisis: Affordability is declining faster than in the US, UK, Australia, Germany or Spain, says Savills
Sinn Féin makes election pledge to phase out help-to-buy scheme and scrap housing subsidies
Party will pledge 175,000 new homes for private purchase, self-build or rent over five years
Sinn Féin’s grand plan for housing: Will it work?
A bonfire of Government housing support schemes is a step into the unknown - even if the promise is for a better future
New data on increase in private rental accommodation may not be accurate picture, says economist
Conall Mac Coille concerned about discrepancy between number of registered tenancies and figures on sector from 2022 census
Sinn Féin is unlikely to replicate its 2020 election performance
Even if the party can pivot the overarching political discussion from immigration to housing, the terms of engagement will not be the same as in 2020
Sinn Féin’s novel housing plan a challenge to ancient Irish instincts about land ownership
Affordable homes would cost no more than €300,000 but the State would continue to own the land on which they are built
Emergency fire-safety works to proceed in 600 apartments amid criticism of remediation scheme
Department of Housing confirms four ‘pathfinder’ projects to identify ‘pinch points’
What is in the mammoth Planning Bill and will it help people get a home more quickly?
One of the biggest pieces of legislation in the history of the State is intended to speed up housing supply and will allow for restructuring of An Bord Pleanála
Darragh O’Brien says social and affordable housing targets will be met in 2024
Opposition claims Government’s Housing for All plan for 33,450 new builds this year will not be delivered
Dublin city ‘affordable’ homes in Coolock priced at up to €475,000
Buyers with incomes over €106,000 will qualify for State-subsidised homes at Oscar Traynor Road
TDs and Senators hear concerns over new fire safety regulations for complex buildings
Latest measures do not extend requirement for sprinklers in underground car parks, Oireachtas Committee on Housing told
Housing Commission report suggests underlying housing deficit of up to 256,000 homes
Commission calls for ‘radical strategic reset of housing policy’ as Sinn Féin says leaked findings are ‘damning indictment’ of Government
Developers warn on Sinn Féin’s plans to change housing policies if in power
Seen & Heard: Quintain in Land Development Agency deal, tech giants call for research cash, and finance bill deters EIIS backers
What is behind the decline in support for Sinn Féin?
The party soared on opposition to Government policy on housing but it faces a huge challenge in its positioning on immigration
Ireland drops six places in Press Freedom index because of politicians using ‘judicial intimidation’
Index compiled by organisation that wrote to Mary Lou McDonald last year expressing ‘alarm’ at case being taken against The Irish Times
Rents for new tenancies increase twice as fast in areas outside Dublin
The national standardised average rent in new tenancies stood at €1,595 per month in the final months of last year, with fastest growing average rent in Limerick
Government departments and State bodies leave €532m in capital allocations unspent
Despite extreme need, Department of Housing fails to use €141 million available to it last year and carries it over into 2024
Costs of social housing construction in Dublin are double those elsewhere
Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin says figures show if land-related costs are kept in State ownership and extracted from final value, ‘you can sell bricks-and-mortar house at a price below €300,000′
How social housing providers and first-time buyers became accidental rivals in a squeezed market
First-time buyers are increasingly competing for new homes with AHBs, non-profit providers of social homes and key bodies for the Government in fixing the housing crisis
Mixing social and private housing segregates rather than integrates communities, says Ó Broin
Planning and Development Bill wording offers ‘flexibility’ in building more social housing, says Fine Gael’s Kieran O’Donnell
Sinn Féin proposes Bill to make ‘sex for rent’ arrangements an offence
Eoin Ó Broin brought forward legislation to make advertising such offers illegal, as ‘preventative measure’
Darragh O’Brien accused of misleading Dáil during homelessness debate
Minister for Housing ‘rejects outright’ assertion he would deliberately or otherwise mislead anyone
Migrants presenting as homeless ‘directly from the airport’, housing officials claim
Officials had ‘concern’ about increase in migrants becoming homeless, internal documents show
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