Child homelessness up by 19% since last year, new figures show
Number of people in emergency accommodation in Ireland reaches 17,517, another record high
Social Housing
Dublin City Council ‘shouldn’t have purchased’ structurally unsound houses in Phibsboro and Drumcondra, engineer says
Almost 100 private houses purchased by authority since 2018 in effort to turn vacant properties into social housing
Minister urges housing bodies to engage on finance difficulties for cost-rental schemes
Most schemes undertaken by approved groups or Land Development Agency due to high debt burden
Councillors to meet housing body over its decision to scrap cost-rental scheme in Cabra
Some 40 houses in Cabra site were to be used for workers who earn too much for social homes but can’t afford rents
Housing can be a hidden admissions officer for students - quiet, powerful and unaccountable
Denmark’s social housing model shows how government initiatives can build sustainable and affordable housing for mixed communities
Dublin council to borrow €36.5m to fund additional affordable homes at O’Devaney Gardens
Move would prevent sale of any private market housing in Dublin 7 development of more than 1,000 apartments
Ireland is ‘delivering’ more social homes, but that doesn’t mean it is building them
Tipperary directly built just three new social houses. Dublin managed 72
Dublin cost-rental scheme dropped over rising costs
Housing body Clúid says it will have to switch to 100 per cent social housing at Bannow Road development in Cabra
Estimated price range of €339,000 to €839,000 for social-housing units in Meath development
Project envisages 757 units, of which 159 are earmarked for social housing
‘Nobody wants to live like this’: Pearse House residents say they live with rats, mould
Dublin City Council received project and funding approval to proceed with the first phase of the regeneration
‘Intensive upgrade’ for Dublin’s Pearse House flats approved after rethink by council
Previous application would have combined small flats into larger ones, reducing overall numbers
Housing ambition can’t be faulted, but is it realistic?
Meeting ambitions, closing skills gaps and attracting international capital such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are all in the mix
Legal challenge to housing development at former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum withdrawn
Developer Mark Leonard has withdrawn High Court challenge
Regeneration of two derelict Phibsborough homes for social housing scrapped over €1.7m ‘excessive cost’
Dublin City Council now has ‘no plans’ for Phibsborough houses it bought seven years ago
Letters: Grappling with the housing crisis
Alongside speed of delivery, the composition of supply also matters
New apartments at Dundrum Town Centre set to generate €3m a year in rental income for owners
British property group Hammerson reveals that 30 of the 122 new units at The Ironworks scheme have been leased out
Fresh legal challenge to almost 1,000 new homes at former Central Mental Hospital Dundrum
Land Development Agency first produced plans for south Dublin site five years ago
Two weeks after the floods, families wait to return to a Dublin housing estate
Residents in Kilternan, Dublin relocated to temporary accommodation because of damage caused by floodwater
Domestic abuse victims left waiting years for social housing after fleeing abusers
One woman took council to court after being told she had voluntarily left the home she was renting
‘I was so terrified’: How domestic abuse victims are becoming homeless
The housing crisis, underreporting of numbers and confusion over local authority housing rules mean those fleeing violence risk homelessness
‘We are just about holding it together’: Overcrowding, mould and rats in Ireland’s social housing
Nearly a decade after a European monitoring body found the human rights of local authority tenants in the State were being violated by inadequate, unsafe housing, little has changed
‘The rental situation needs to change’: Pet owners struggle to find homes in a housing crisis
Couple with three pet dogs say they have struggled to find accommodation for a number of years
‘It feels like we have to grieve on DCC’s time’: Homes boarded up soon after tenants’ deaths
Families ‘traumatised’ after council closed off houses of late parents without notice or guidance on surrendering property
Dublin City Council targets 113 ‘inactive’ developments that could provide 13,000 homes
Council to ‘seek out’ owners without planning permission for lands that could accommodate at least 100 social homes
Developer puts €1m price tag on three-bed apartment for social housing in Ranelagh
Council will be offered 56 apartments in proposed 562-unit development on former Jesuit site on Sandford Road
Too rich for social housing, too poor to rent or buy. Who will help Ireland’s squeezed middle?
The challenge for the two big parties of Government is how to hold on to – or win back – this vital but disparate middle ground
‘There’s a seismic change looming’: Social housing bodies come under increasing scrutiny
Bigger not-for-profit AHBs have operations on a par with large companies, with assets worth billions of euro and monthly rental income of €10m
More than 1,000 social homes in Donegal visibly cracked due to defective blocks
Council has been asking Department of Housing for four years for funding to repair damage done to housing stock
Dublin City Council to raise social housing rents, with some tenants facing 50% hike
Councillors pass budget plan by one vote, with higher earners to pay more under new rules
Will the Government’s latest plan to fix the housing crisis work? Experts have their say
Newest proposal to ease one of the nation’s biggest problems is ‘evolution, not revolution’
New housing plan aims to deliver 12,000 social homes and 15,000 affordable units per year
Coalition’s long-awaited plan set to include expansion of Land Development Agency’s role
Dublin City Council tenants face rent rises up to 50% in first overhaul in 30 years
Council wants higher-income tenants to pay significantly more, with a fifth of households earning €1,000 net a week
US investor seeking €80m from sale of hundreds of social housing units
Portfolio comprises mix of 276 houses and apartments let to local authorities and located mainly in Dublin and Cork
‘It’s breaking my heart’: Woman living with children in hostel facing two-year wait for home
‘Our whole life has been turned upside down,’ says mother of three
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