# housing-crisis - Today’s News
Leo Varadkar and Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy faced opposition on their co-living stance in the Dáil today.
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Cohousing arrangements are a co-operative movement that helps to create affordable housing, writes Tom O’Donnell.
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# housing-crisis - Yesterday’s News
Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy said co-living is an ‘exciting’ choice for young workers.
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# housing-crisis - Monday 20 May, 2019
An Bord Pleanala granted permission for the development after an appeal.
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# housing-crisis - Saturday 18 May, 2019
Figures show that more than 10,000 people are currently registered as homeless in Ireland.
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# housing-crisis - Friday 17 May, 2019
Plans to build a block of 208 studio dwellings which would see dozens of people sharing one kitchen have been criticised.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 16 May, 2019
Over €118 million was spent on homeless emergency accommodation last year.
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# housing-crisis - Monday 13 May, 2019
The scheme was approved at the council’s final monthly meeting this evening.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 7 May, 2019
5,500 people have turned down social housing since 2016.
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# housing-crisis - Wednesday 1 May, 2019
The GRA said this issue is particularly impacting on new recruits who are on lower incomes.
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# housing-crisis - Friday 26 April, 2019
‘We are delighted to come and spend our savings on courses and accommodation but we need help to get set up. None of us wants to sleep on the streets,’ writes Ana Marta Gonçalves.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 11 April, 2019
The planning permission will see that close to 900 social and affordable homes will be built on the site.
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In Berlin, a proposed referendum seeks to ban the largest landlord company and expropriate the homes for social housing – but the average rent in Dublin is twice that of Berlin, writes Ciaran Connolly.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 9 April, 2019
Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath described the figure as ‘extraordinarily high’.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 4 April, 2019
The Government proposals aim to increase the rights of tenants in the rental market.
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# housing-crisis - Tuesday 2 April, 2019
RPZ laws were first introduced in December 2016 to address spiraling rents.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 28 March, 2019
The Housing Minister was reacting to the revelation that there are now 10,000 homeless people in the country.
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# housing-crisis - Thursday 21 March, 2019
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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