Temperatures plummet on election campaign trail amid blizzard of political promises
While plans differ between some parties on housing, the cost of living and taxes, all of them agree on a few basic tenets around housing
Rory Hearne
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
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
‘Blatantly unfair’ that Social Democrat candidates are excluded from RTÉ election debates, says Cairns
Holly Cairns to complain to State broadcaster over omission of Rory Hearne and Susan Doyle from televised European vote debates
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
Rory Hearne to run in European elections as Social Democrat candidate
Academic and housing policy commentator to run in Midlands-North-West constituency
Problem of homelessness in Traveller community highlighted at webinar
State plays ‘huge role’ in the homelessness as local authorities regularly evicts Travellers
Tiresome debate about housing ‘vulture funds’ only for the birds
Caveat: Rhetoric around institutional capital in market adds little but spittle
Dublin build-to-rent scheme will exacerbate housing crisis, SF leader says
Proposed €610 million Drumcondra scheme opposed by majority of submissions
Stocktake: Ires Reit share price under the spotlight
Investors should resist idea that stocks rise on good news and fall on bad news
Generation Covid: Are there short-term fixes to help young adults?
Experts believe changes are urgently needed for long-term problems
Failure to solve housing crisis would see FG and FF ‘massacred’, McVerry warns
Housing conference told PPPs ‘high risk strategies’ when it comes to delivering homes
Housing stats not perfect set of data, says Eoghan Murphy
Government working on better measures to capture housing supply, says Minister
Number of homeless ‘family hubs’ in Dublin set to double
Call for the use of short-term hubs to be discontinued at Committee on Housing
Family hubs not long-term solution to homelessness, Dáil told
Reports warn hubs run risk of replacing one problem with another, says Eoin Ó Broin
Most of housing list’s 90,000 have accommodation, Taoiseach says
Leo Varadkar defends State provision of family hubs in Dáil exchanges
Housing crisis to escalate over next five years, academics warn
‘Family hubs’ could be next ‘direct provision’ for State’s poor, says NUI Maynooth report
Ireland risks ‘perfect storm’ in housing system, DIT lecturer says
Dr Sirr says thousands ‘stuck in the middle’ of social housing and affordable homes
Why Government response to housing crisis has failed
It defies logic to expect private rental sector to deliver the required number of units
Budget 2017: Reactions range from surprise to ‘continued austerity’
‘If changes such as wealth tax were made, it could have meant extra €200m for spending’
No quick fix for home rental crisis, say experts
As rents reach new peak, experts says situation likely to get worse before getting better
Despite recovery, Ireland remains a hugely unequal society
Children and women are worst hit by a society whose policies refuse to cherish all its people equally
Numbers of children in consistent poverty almost doubles during recession
Tasc report indicates that women and children bore the brunt of recessionary years
Time to end Ireland’s ‘failed developer-led property market’
Ireland has an emergency and the new Minister for Housing is promising a powerful response. What’s at stake?
How the Government should tackle the housing crisis
We need rent control and a larger plan to deliver social housing
All you need to know about tight race for those Seanad seats
Sidelights of Irish political life: Car parks, farm lanes and enduring absence from home
Election outcome was political earthquake that never happened
Characterisations of the election result as groundbreaking do not reflect reality
Miriam Lord: This was a FF election - not Fianna Fáil, but fractured and fragmented
For all the Left-wing celebration, a move to old ways leaves Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil brass neck and brass neck
Tasc report warns on social cost of five years of spending cuts
More than half of income gains have gone to top 10% of earners
Rory Hearne: The State must intervene in housing market
System will only be fixed when housing is treated as a home and not a speculative investment asset or commodity
Housing: Kelly says emergency legislation could be introduced
Peter McVerry says Minister for Environment can’t solve problem on his own
Power to the people
The official line was that the Irish don’t protest. But that changed with the bailout, the recession and the water charges. How might those demonstrations affect Ireland’s next general election?
Anti-water charges campaign may lead to ‘new political reality’
Right2Water protests similar to Bolivia’s ‘Water War’, says leading international expert
Alan Kelly ‘not’ nervous at voter disaffectation over water
Minister disagrees many water protesters were Labour supporters at last election
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