Rory Hearne

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

Thu Nov 21 2024 - 08:09

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

Tue Nov 12 2024 - 07:45

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

Thu Aug 15 2024 - 05:00

‘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

Wed May 15 2024 - 16:40

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

Sat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00

Rory Hearne to run in European elections as Social Democrat candidate

Academic and housing policy commentator to run in Midlands-North-West constituency

Tue Mar 12 2024 - 22:06

Problem of homelessness in Traveller community highlighted at webinar

State plays ‘huge role’ in the homelessness as local authorities regularly evicts Travellers

Tue Jan 18 2022 - 21:44

Tiresome debate about housing ‘vulture funds’ only for the birds

Caveat: Rhetoric around institutional capital in market adds little but spittle

Fri Sept 03 2021 - 06:06

Dublin build-to-rent scheme will exacerbate housing crisis, SF leader says

Proposed €610 million Drumcondra scheme opposed by majority of submissions

Mon Aug 30 2021 - 18:30

Stocktake: Ires Reit share price under the spotlight

Investors should resist idea that stocks rise on good news and fall on bad news

Tue May 25 2021 - 00:00

Generation Covid: Are there short-term fixes to help young adults?

Experts believe changes are urgently needed for long-term problems

Tue May 11 2021 - 20:50

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

Wed Mar 11 2020 - 21:31

Housing stats not perfect set of data, says Eoghan Murphy

Government working on better measures to capture housing supply, says Minister

Mon Oct 02 2017 - 20:18

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

Wed Sept 20 2017 - 21:05

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

Thu Jul 13 2017 - 20:34

Most of housing list’s 90,000 have accommodation, Taoiseach says

Leo Varadkar defends State provision of family hubs in Dáil exchanges

Wed Jul 12 2017 - 20:34

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

Wed Jul 12 2017 - 07:50

Ireland risks ‘perfect storm’ in housing system, DIT lecturer says

Dr Sirr says thousands ‘stuck in the middle’ of social housing and affordable homes

Sat Jun 17 2017 - 09:34

Why Government response to housing crisis has failed

It defies logic to expect private rental sector to deliver the required number of units

Wed Jun 07 2017 - 01:00

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’

Tue Oct 11 2016 - 19:29

No quick fix for home rental crisis, say experts

As rents reach new peak, experts says situation likely to get worse before getting better

Fri Aug 26 2016 - 06:00

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

Wed Aug 24 2016 - 00:20

Numbers of children in consistent poverty almost doubles during recession

Tasc report indicates that women and children bore the brunt of recessionary years

Wed Jul 20 2016 - 21:53

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?

Fri May 13 2016 - 06:45

How the Government should tackle the housing crisis

We need rent control and a larger plan to deliver social housing

Wed May 11 2016 - 01:10

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

Mon Apr 18 2016 - 01:00

Election outcome was political earthquake that never happened

Characterisations of the election result as groundbreaking do not reflect reality

Tue Mar 01 2016 - 01:00

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

Mon Feb 29 2016 - 10:27

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

Mon Nov 09 2015 - 06:10

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

Thu Oct 22 2015 - 05:15

Housing: Kelly says emergency legislation could be introduced

Peter McVerry says Minister for Environment can’t solve problem on his own

Sun Oct 04 2015 - 13:19

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?

Sat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00