Land Development Agency: developers look to be the big winners

Analysis: Look past the big numbers and where are the affordable homes needed right now?

How Ireland’s property crisis is affecting the real economy

Housing issue is affecting disposable income, mobility, competitiveness and quality of life

Sheriff Street gets luxury student complex, but no extra houses

Developers chasing profits as locals forced to move out of area, say community groups

Housing recovery too little and too late for many

Latest new dwelling numbers show increase in building is nowhere near required level

New housing data justifies criticism of Government numbers

Analysis: CSO numbers reveal calamitous fall-off in residential construction since crash

State owns enough zoned land to build 114,000 homes

More than half the social housing waiting list could be cleared, new figures show

Total of 780 local authority houses built last year

Government strategy fails to deliver on social housing promise so far

Just 163 repossessed homes made available for social housing

Banks had offered 2,000 such properties to the Housing Agency under a new scheme

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

Planning permissions for apartments fall despite demand

CSO figures show bias towards low-density housing schemes

Almost 40,000 social homes could be built by local authorities

Data show authorities own enough land to triple Government’s Rebuilding Ireland targets

Volunteers giving only food to homeless ‘not helpful’, official says

Long-term homelessness results from years of ‘bad behaviour’, says senior official

Social housing at a standstill: ‘You have to wonder is this policy’

Less than 1% of needed social housing has been built since start of 2016, says analyst

Price of Dublin new homes rising at six times rate of existing homes

CSO figures show average cost of new home in capital has risen 60% since 2010

State expects 19,000 houses to be built by year end

Government projects that 23,000 houses will be finished by 2018

Councils build 161 social houses in first nine months of 2016

Figures reveal low level of direct builds persists although 90,000 on waiting lists

Could the ending of mortgage arrears trigger tsunami of new renters?

Expert warns of spike in rents and homelessness if banks move on distressed loans

Department warned tax exemption would clog up housing market

Revenue official suggested CGT exemption would encourage investors to sit on property

New data shows just 2,076 homes built last year

Freedom of Information figures show new homes falling far short of Government’s 15,000 estimate

Housing experts question new census figures

CSO figures show an increase of 14,145 renting from State-provided accommodation

Just 64 social housing units delivered by private sector in 2015

Part V rules require developers to set aside 10% of homes for use as social housing

Why State’s housing plan won’t make property more affordable

The private build model produces houses that most people can’t afford, says expert

Government’s plan to solve housing crisis ‘likely to fail’

Property expert says Rebuilding Ireland strategy is based on faulty assumptions

Why even the Government can’t count number of new houses

Department says it collates several datasets to estimate residential building rates

Department denies housing statistics unreliable

Claim that use of ESB meter connection data amplifies levels of actual house supply

Housing completions may be nearly half official figure, says expert

Statistics based on ESB meter connections ‘wholly unreliable’, says architect

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