# housing-crisis - Today’s News
I am 57 years old, born and reared in Dublin. I started working when I was 15 but now I’m facing eviction from yet another rented property, writes Janette Byrne.
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# housing-crisis - Sunday 17 March, 2019
The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive found that 1,233 families were residing in emergency accommodation at the end of 2018.
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# housing-crisis - Wednesday 6 March, 2019
Cities with a large population and expensive housing do not have golf courses near their centre, due to the self-evident inefficiency of that land use, writes Paddy Smyth.
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Increased costs and problems securing staff could hinder the industry’s response.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
Micheál Martin accused the government of letting down people on low incomes down.
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# housing-crisis - Saturday 23 February, 2019
The event will hear from a number of groups who are working to regularise the model here as well as experts on how to manage the financial and legal issues.
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# housing-crisis - Sunday 17 February, 2019
Focus Ireland said the fact that people are turning down offers is actually “symptomatic of the failure of housing policy”.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
The combined total of people either looking for a house or looking to move stands at 27,762.
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# housing-crisis - Monday 4 February, 2019
There are thousands of families in Dublin living in conditions of severe overcrowding – the worst case I’ve come across was 14 people living in a 2-bed flat, writes Críona Ní Dhálaigh.
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# housing-crisis - Monday 28 January, 2019
The new state lender aims to deliver 7,500 homes within five years.
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Just 30% of those who engaged with Abhaile’s financial advice have a solution in place or are on track for one.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 17 January, 2019
The housing body has also made 571 further deals to buy distressed mortgages and many of these will move forward this year.
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# housing-crisis - Sunday 13 January, 2019
People who are working every day with customers in arrears say lenders are still refusing to cooperate in any significant way.
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# housing-crisis - Friday 11 January, 2019
Edmund Honohan urged the Fianna Fáil leader to support a piece of legislation he wrote that is currently before the Dáil.
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# housing-crisis - Monday 7 January, 2019
Ibec says there are not enough skilled workers here to meet demand.
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There are vast tracts of underutilised lands close to the city centre, they should be used to build high-quality apartment blocks with generous courtyards and play areas, writes Ciaran Cuffe.
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# housing-crisis - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
Site owners will be eligible to pay up to 7% of its value if the local authority has placed it on the vacant sites register.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 27 December, 2018
The ‘trêve hivernale’ has been a part of French law since 1956.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 25 December, 2018
This was one such case faced by housing charity Threshold this year.
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# housing-crisis - Sunday 23 December, 2018
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice said politicians need to bring in legislation to make sure recent incidents are not repeated.
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# housing-crisis - Saturday 22 December, 2018
Dublin City Council tenants paid a total of €78.3 million in rent last year.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 20 December, 2018
Eoghan Murphy: “It is very disappointing to see more children in emergency accommodation as we go into Christmas week.”
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 13 December, 2018
The average rent in Dublin is now €1,620 per month.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 22 November, 2018
The Housing Committee was told today that students are sleeping in cars due to high rent costs.
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# housing-crisis - Wednesday 21 November, 2018
Activists are calling for a greater level of independence on the board.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 20 November, 2018
The Bill seeks an increase in the provision of social and affordable housing to 25% in private developments.
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# housing-crisis - Saturday 17 November, 2018
Since the summer, the country has seen a rise in housing activists taking action to raise awareness over housing issues.
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# housing-crisis - Saturday 10 November, 2018
This week a petition with 3,500 signatures calling for a halt to the sale of the site was handed into the Department of Finance.
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# housing-crisis - Friday 9 November, 2018
The children said they wanted to share the difficulties they have experienced but also to share their hope with other children in tough situations.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 8 November, 2018
The site already has planning permission for more than 450 apartments.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 25 October, 2018
The much-anticipated regulations will come into force in June 2019 in areas with high housing demand.
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The much-anticipated regulations will come into force in June 2019 in areas with high housing demand.
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# housing-crisis - Saturday 20 October, 2018
The proposed initial site for the Cost Rental Residential Project would be in Ballymun.
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# housing-crisis - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
Cork City Council officials will state today most active sector for construction is for student accommodation.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 16 October, 2018
The phone line was previously run by Focus Ireland – now families will have to call the general rough sleeper line after hours.
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Some people were being charged up to €500 to view an apartment.
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# housing-crisis - Saturday 13 October, 2018
TBTC claims Airbnb has exacerbated the housing crisis in Dublin and Ireland as a whole.
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# housing-crisis - Friday 12 October, 2018
In one case, a woman was asked for €500 to view a property.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 11 October, 2018
The housing crisis is making Ireland a less attractive destination for foreign workers.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 9 October, 2018
Solidarity TD Paul Murphy TD made the charge after tax relief for landlords was announced.
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