Martin defends apartment standards plan as Opposition calls for end to ‘wrong-headed’ changes
Critics say construction rule amendments would lead to smaller, darker units with potential impact on costs unclear
Housing crisis
House price inflation at 7.6% in September as supply pressures continue to fuel demand
CSO data indicates that house prices in Dublin rose by 5.3% in the 12 months to the end of September, and by 9.4% outside the capital
‘I don’t think Balbriggan was ready for this amount of people’: The challenges facing a Dublin commuter town
Some residents worry a lack of youth facilities leaves teens at a loose end around the area
I split the family home with my daughter. Here’s what the Government needs to do
You might assume that in a housing emergency there would be grants specifically for this kind of work. You’d be wrong
Paul Murphy: Left’s unity from Catherine Connolly campaign faces its first big tests
Many quote Brendan Behan and suggest the first item on the agenda for a left alliance will be the split. They said the same about the Catherine Connolly campaign
Two-thirds of First Home Scheme applicants also availing of help-to-buy arrangement
Finding prompts criticism that first-time buyers now need two State subsidies to buy a home
Meath homebuyers fear for future after liquidator appointed to housing estate developer
Buyers asked by to pay additional €60,000 on top of deposits after Meathamatic Ltd cited rising costs
‘He’s probably reached the end of the road’: Donohoe’s constituents on his time in politics
Voters around Phibsborough recall a shrewd politician and skilled communicator with a legacy tied to crisis
How to earn six figures – and still qualify for affordable housing
Government is ramping up its affordable schemes, but is the offering as good as it sounds?
Housing stuck at the bottom of planning priorities
Ireland may have a crisis in finding homes for its people but when it comes down to it, they are not as important as geese
Government signals plan to replace apartment planning standards amid legal challenge
Minister for Housing to take ‘precautionary approach’ by assessing impact of new rule on apartment sizes, court hears
Applications open for 229 Land Development Agency cost-rental apartments in Dublin
Cooper Square is part of Seven Mills, a new town being developed in Dublin 22
What happens when housing supply is driven by markets?
Home prices in America won’t come down without systemic reform
Inside Ireland’s new suburbia: Three major ways our suburbs are changing
Economic forces are spurring the growth of new towns and altering older neighbourhoods
Housing finance lender to provide builders with €770m
Activate Capital has become one of the leading funders of the Irish homebuilding sector and one of ISIF’s longest investment partnerships
‘Complex’ property rights could stymie plans to remove domestic abusers from homes
Official figures may understate number being made homeless by domestic violence, Government figures believe
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Ireland’s Changing Suburbs: ‘Glanmire was a village when I moved here’
Across Ireland, once-rural towns and villages are being absorbed into cities
‘We are human beings too’: Homeless singles react to Government housing plan prioritising families
Latest housing strategy involves instructions to council to put long-term homeless families with children at the top of their housing lists
We need 75 firms building 400 units each a year to meet housing targets
International capital rather than labour and skills is what’s required to meet housing targets
Catherine Connolly served notice on the Government – but the left is not its biggest problem
Unless it can make rapid progress in facilitating homebuilding, the Coalition will have no future. Nor, frankly, will it deserve one
‘We want people living there’: How Dundrum in south Dublin became a housing battleground
South Dublin neighbourhood has seen an intensification of apartment block construction over the past two decades, despite some objections
Seán Moncrieff: Visiting from France, my daughter found Ireland hard to love
My daughter and her family have a quality of life in rural France they could only dream of having here
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’
Will new housing plan help a first-time buyer on €65,000 to buy a home?
Policy needs to tilt in favour of those needing a home and away from people who already have one
Coalition has a credibility gap when it comes to housing
Latest initiative maintains existing 300,000 target but gives Land Development Agency additional financial muscle
‘Jim O’Callaghan could stop all this. He hasn’t’: Inside Fianna Fáil’s post-election crisis
Taoiseach and party leader Micheál Martin is deemed vulnerable by insiders after the Jim Gavin debacle, but there is a sense that any potential heave is on hold
How Ireland plans to speed up the delivery of big projects
Department of Public Expenditure has been criticised over hurdles large projects have had to clear
Remaining occupants of North Circular Road house ordered to leave by December 13th
One of the occupants, a Trinity College Dublin literature and sociology student, said he had moved in after being unable to find accommodation
The success or failure of new housing plan will define the term of this Government
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
New housing plan promises 300,000 new homes. Can it deliver?
In the News podcast: Government launches its ‘Delivering Homes, Building Communities' plan
Put long-term homeless families with children at top of housing queue, councils told
Government shifts focus in effort to reduce number of children in emergency accommodation
What will new housing plan mean for renters? What you need to know about today’s announcement
Minister for Housing James Browne ‘will not accept a lack of ambition’ to ensure progress; time will tell
‘I was barely surviving’: Life as an Irish retiree who rents
Denis Kinevane (68) spent years renting and a decade on a social housing list
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