Housing crisis

On-campus housing can be both expensive and difficult to secure

People seeking homes at more affordable end of market more dramatically impacted, Sherry FitzGerald says

We need more homes of every tenure: homes to buy, homes to rent, social homes and cost-rental homes

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

The builder said the funding will go towards a number of key research and development activities

Latest CSO Residential Property Price Index indicates prices in Dublin rose at annual rate of 4.6%

Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and MyHome analysed the final sale prices of 50,000 homes sold between 2023 and 2024

Residents of Shannon Valley, where almost half the houses are boarded-up, are now hopeful for the future

Children need space to play

Special rapporteur’s intervention is welcomed by human rights and equality campaigners

But judge had criticised ‘unbelievable chutzpah’ of developers behind work at Chianti Park, South Dublin

Many new housing developments have no useful green space for kids

Behind the cost problem lies the deeper failure of supply

House prices weren’t cheap back in those Celtic Tiger days, but lending rules and housing supply were very different

Owner has applied for planning permission to convert facility in Mungret into apartments

Rather than blaming residents for raising legitimate concerns, we should demand that the State gets the planning right

Housing and planning policy here largely designed by men and fail to address daily needs of rest of population

‘If we’re to support this substantial housing target, we’ve got to do something different’

Objections to Dunsink are not about what’s in the plan. They’re about what’s missing

Nobody believes these fantasy targets, but as they are still ‘policy’, everyone has to pretend they are relevant

Plus: Residents campaign against Fingal’s proposed Dunsink City Quarter and the €10,000-winner at the Dublin Horse Show

From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s Dunsink was the location of Dublin’s largest rubbish dump

One of Dublin’s largest landbanks is set for a new town bigger than Bray. Its neighbours are concerned

Housing incentives like Help-to-Buy, once introduced, are very hard to remove and all too often, the law of unintended consequences comes into play

The property management company repeatedly refused to sign my forms, saying that I had ‘cancelled the HAP payment and moved out of the house’

‘Extremely worrying’ that council cancelled housing assistance payment on woman, says Workplace Relations Commission

Construction of 18,500 homes only feasible if Shannon-to-Dublin water-supply project and greater Dublin sewage project are built

I hope that the €14,000 limit will be raised in the budget

As rents continue to climb, housing has emerged as the defining battleground of Berlin’s September state election

Micheál Martin is a ‘deliverist’ at heart; Harris, by contrast, does things, tells people about them, shows he is doing them – on repeat

The more prices get out of line, the higher the risk if there is an economic shock from AI, the tech sector, the Middle East situation or something else

There has been 10 per cent increase in overall homeless figures over past 12 months

Piecemeal policies have unsettled landlords and failed tenants

Central Statistics Office records a 16.4% drop in number of new dwelling completions in Dublin area

State’s builder of affordable homes expects to spend nearly €200m on buying land this year

The national children’s hospital project has seriously damaged trust

While the building goes on, established places that used to have a centre are becoming hollowed out

Ireland is engaged in a housing experiment and the results are mixed at best

Report also highlights increased incidence of landlords exiting market in response to rental reforms

Plus: Aughinish Alumina, and two good incomes but can’t afford a home