Housing Crisis

There are 4,561 children across Ireland who tonight will go to sleep in beds they don’t call their own

Government has breached its own 5 per cent spending limit each year since its introduction

Election 2024: Fine Gael leader promises more ‘interventionist’ State on child care and ‘firmer’ migration system

The expansion of the State is no longer a lefty position in Irish politics. It is pretty much everybody’s position

Any Department of Infrastructure will need a long time to get up to speed as happened when department responsibility for climate was switched

Sinn Féin president insists party’s election strategy is on track and ‘we are in it to win it’

Eamon Ryan says Ballsbridge is ‘horrific’ for pedestrians and cyclists at final transport committee meeting

The Coalition did not want to set targets it could not meet within the duration of the current Government – although Ministers would likely contest this

For weeks, aggregate polling has depicted a race that has become indecipherably close in seven battleground states which both parties have strong chance of winning

We have had 100 years of policy retrenchment, deregulation and bad ideas, with nothing breaking the cycle

When prices in Ireland began to surge in the 2000s, we looked to the German housing market as a more stable, affordable exemplar. Not any more

US election context: Amid a stark housing crisis, about 7,000 eviction orders are served every month in Maricopa County - affecting all kinds of people

Builders, frustrated by the wait and by politicians failure to fully understand demand for housing, say the absence of new targets has real consequences

Former minister for housing Eoghan Murphy’s account of his failures (and failings) is candid, unforgiving, unfiltered and utterly brutal

Governing parties need to convince electorate that they can deal with persistent problems such as housing and infrastructure

In this ingenious book, Richard Seymour explains why we are assailed by violent dysfunctions and how to reinvigorate the template for our societies in other ways than simply shoring up faith in failing systems

From Friday, homes worth €515,000, up from €450,000, will now be eligible for the initiative, as well as apartments or town houses worth €385,000

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report identifies huge shortfall in labour across housing, healthcare, transport and energy sectors

Housing remains a key topic as general election looms; immigration falls to its lowest ranking this year