A darkly farcical incident on Liveline ends up exposing a hot-button issue
Radio: The Liveline host gleefully performs the audio equivalent of nudges and winks after a general-election weekend that leaves him hoarse
Lorcan Sirr
Academic
Two local authorities did not build any social homes last year, expert says
Low level of direct builds explains lengthy waiting lists, Lorcan Sirr argues
Plans for Ukrainian refugee housing will not provide ‘an awful lot’ – expert
Number of empty houses under public ownership would be ‘small’, says Dr Lorcan Sirr
Rent trap: A generation stuck in a vicious circle
Young people are bearing the brunt of the State’s dysfunctional property system
Analysis: Is there a way to keep tenants and landlords happy?
Change to cap on rent increases and tax cut on rent income may halt exodus of landlords
Land value sharing measure doesn’t go as far as Kenny report recommended
Cantillon: Government should give local authorities more power over development land
Delivery key to prospects for success of Coalition housing plan
Plan relies on private builders providing 170,000 of 300,000 new homes by 2030
Student accommodation: ‘It’s not what students want. And it’s extortionate’
Concerns persist that purpose-built student accommodation is unaffordable for students
Could rent-to-buy help to unlock home ownership for generation rent?
What if ‘dead’ money from rent could be used to offset against the purchase of a property?
Home ownership rises across State as numers renting falls
CSO data shows ‘remarkable shift’ in way we work and live, economist says
Interest in rural property soars as Covid-19 effect kicks in
Online property search data indicates shift in attitudes among potential home-buyers
New government faces five key economic challenges
Level of uncertainty new government faces in economic arena is unprecedented
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
Renters on housing crisis: ‘We’re f**ked basically’
Rental sector has exploded, but housing policy is still locked on home ownership
Housing subsidies not providing value for money – PAC
Two key housing supports accounted for 27% of housing budget in 2017
Property parlance: Know your Nimby from your Yimby
A-Z highlights from a new guide to Irish housing which aims to demystify the jargon
The changing face of Irish home ownership – who wins, who loses?
Ireland is undergoing a shift from owning to renting. What does this mean for people?
Bliss or blight? The bungalow designs that changed the face of Ireland
New posthumous publication defends 1971 book by Jack Fitzsimons
Failure to plan
Ireland’s planning system has been held up to unfavourable international scrutiny as a result of the still unresolved Apple Athenry data-centre application
Lorcan Sirr: Central Bank should revise housing figures
Government has overstated number of new homes built by nearly 60 per cent, CSO says
New housing data justifies criticism of Government numbers
Analysis: CSO numbers reveal calamitous fall-off in residential construction since crash
Known unknowns: how many houses are we really building?
Cantillon: We need an accurate measure of housing output if we are to address crisis
Housing movement like anti-water charges campaign urged
Policy appears to be ‘solutions’ that are most profitable for private sector, conference told
Social housing: ‘Let’s not make the same mistakes again’
There’s a danger that quick-fix ‘solutions’ to the housing crisis will create new problems
Micheál Martin takes muted but not modest line of attack
Fianna Fáil think-in focuses on complaints about Government spin rather than policy
Fianna Fáil ‘will not enter coalition with cult-like Sinn Féin’
Gerry Adams’s party takes ‘apologist approach to heinous crimes’ – Micheál Martin
Complex housing crisis needs variety of imaginative solutions
Almost 15,000 homes were built last year, we need 50,000 – the housing crisis in a nutshell
What can be done about housing crisis? Experts give their views
Suggestions include a site planning tax and ways to tackle the number of vacant houses
Ireland risks ‘perfect storm’ in housing system, DIT lecturer says
Dr Sirr says thousands ‘stuck in the middle’ of social housing and affordable homes
Government’s housing figures are ‘misleading’, expert says
Dr Lorcan Sirr criticises method of counting new-builds following ‘Irish Times’ report
Housing experts question new census figures
CSO figures show an increase of 14,145 renting from State-provided accommodation
Housing figures expose ‘devastating’ scale of crisis, say charities
Number of households paying €300 per week in rent has ‘shot up’
Department denies housing statistics unreliable
Claim that use of ESB meter connection data amplifies levels of actual house supply
State has 13 empty homes for each homeless adult, says charity
Half of repossessed homes offered for social housing rejected by authority, committee told
Housing completions may be nearly half official figure, says expert
Statistics based on ESB meter connections ‘wholly unreliable’, says architect
Do we really need 30,000 new homes a year?
ESRI’s estimate of structural demand is based on household formation rates
Older people want to live in own homes due to location, study finds
New report says there is a gap in the housing and support options for the elderly
Supply of new homes may be 75% less than official figures suggest, claims expert
DIT lecturer Lorcan Sirr reveals alarming anomalies in official housing statistics
Specialised student accommodation providers here to stay
Ireland has never had a tradition of specialised accommodation for students. 65 per cent of students will live at home this year
Coveney pledges new homes in Dublin for about €260,000
Minister insists Government’s new housing plan will not overheat property market
Helping first-time buyers ‘may increase house prices’
Economist Colm McCarthy says incentives will ‘add to the pressure of excess demand’
Homes without services risk becoming ‘ghost communities’, says CIF
Construction Industry Federation chief Tom Parlon calls for EU to relax spending rules
Large broods (and where to house them) the talk of MacGill Summer School
Glenties crowd told working on Census 2016 showed ‘Ireland of Mary and Tom is gone’
We abandon the Irish tradition of home ownership at our peril
The further we depart from this the more our cultural, institutional and legislative frameworks will have to adapt
Successive ministers given ‘poor housing advice’ by civil servants
‘There is a history of poor guidance which is holding up development’
Social Democrats unveil housing policy in response to crisis
Party’s policy initiative advocates new department, minister with full cabinet status
Studio apartments: Minister defends rules reducing size
Alan Kelly accused of being bamboozled by coterie of ‘powerful vested property interests’
Behind the News: Kieran Rose, planning expert
Nama’s plan to build 20,000 houses will help Dublin’s housing crisis, but the capital faces other hurdles as well, according to the city planner
Homelessness campaigner wants ‘right to a home’ vote
MacGill: Sister Stanislaus says playing market with people’s housing needs ‘indecent’
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