Despite extreme need, Department of Housing fails to use €141 million available to it last year and carries it over into 2024
Eoin Ó Broin
Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin says figures show if land-related costs are kept in State ownership and extracted from final value, ‘you can sell bricks-and-mortar house at a price below €300,000′
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
Planning and Development Bill wording offers ‘flexibility’ in building more social housing, says Fine Gael’s Kieran O’Donnell
Eoin Ó Broin brought forward legislation to make advertising such offers illegal, as ‘preventative measure’
Minister for Housing ‘rejects outright’ assertion he would deliberately or otherwise mislead anyone
Officials had ‘concern’ about increase in migrants becoming homeless, internal documents show
Darragh O’Brien says 500 people a week are drawing down loans for their first homes
Both referendums due to take place on March 8th, International Women’s Day
Sinn Féin goal of cutting average house prices to €300,000 in Dublin would be ‘disastrous’ - O’Brien
Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin says homeless children need homes ‘not cheap soundbites’
The party’s politics works by setting ‘outsiders’ against home-owning ‘insiders’. But fixes demand complex trade-offs
Government and Opposition politicians express ‘disappointment’ over State body’s postponement of meeting until January
Figures should include rough sleepers and people in accommodation not funded by the State, Ó Broin says
Peter McVerry Trust struggles with financial crisis, while several local authorities are reviewing plans to develop housing with homelessness charity
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