# Social Housing

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# no place like home

Here's how the Government plans to solve the housing crisis

Its social housing strategy for the next six years includes 35,000 new housing units.

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Nov 26th 2014, 6:50 PM

# Housing Crisis

Dublin City Council accepts developer money instead of social housing

Just three Dublin developments in the last year included social housing.

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Nov 24th 2014, 7:00 AM

# Housing Crisis

Some councils are taking developer’s money instead of building social housing

Under the law, a developer can pay a levy in lieu of building social housing.

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Nov 17th 2014, 7:15 AM

# Ballymun

Council decides to take developer's money instead of social housing

A number of councillors in the area have criticised the move but one said he would support the decision – so long as that money is used by the council for social housing.

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Oct 23rd 2014, 7:00 AM

# NO MORE PRIORY HALLS

Enda Kenny vows to crack down on cowboy developers

“Nobody wants to go back to the bad old days of the construction and property boom.”

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Oct 22nd 2014, 10:43 AM

# Full Circle

If all goes to plan, Nama will be no more in four years

The State’s bad bank is aiming to wind up ahead of schedule.

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Oct 22nd 2014, 9:05 AM

# that's that then

Nessa Childers says the legal, er, 'situation' between her and Phil Hogan is over

Hogan sent legal letters to the MEP last month.

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Oct 21st 2014, 5:37 PM

# new gaffs

Four years, 10,000 units: Here's how the Government plans to boost social housing

Brendan Howlin’s announced €2.2 billion in spending… Here’s how the money will be used.

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Oct 15th 2014, 7:40 AM

There will be €2.2 BILLION spent on social housing in the next three years

Brendan Howlin says it will deliver 6,700 units.

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Oct 14th 2014, 3:43 PM

Voices

Opinion: A lack of vision has failed people at all levels of our housing system

There are now 90,000 households on social housing waiting lists in Ireland, thanks to an over-reliance on schemes that are cut as soon as the economy falters.

Oct 9th 2014, 1:00 PM

# Water Charges

Should €400m in cash from water charges be spent on more social housing?

The government should invest the money in homes, not hand it back in tax cuts, ESRI says.

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Oct 8th 2014, 7:45 AM

# Housing

Builders are not happy with the government's new social housing plan

But a housing charity thinks it’s not so bad.

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Oct 3rd 2014, 6:15 AM

# if you don't build it...

New social housing plan would force developers to 'use it or lose it'

And fine them for leaving property vacant.

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Oct 2nd 2014, 11:43 AM

# Social Housing

24 families to be housed in Cork ghost estate

The homes in Bandon are a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses with gardens.

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Sep 29th 2014, 1:10 PM

Voices

Opinion: How do we bring the issue of social housing from 'political priority' to concrete action?

We need an increased supply of new social housing whose future is not as heavily dependent on private market interests.

Sep 25th 2014, 8:00 AM

# Careful Now

There's "no room" in the Irish economy for tax cuts - we should be investing instead

The conditions just aren’t right yet, the Nevin Institute has said.

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Sep 24th 2014, 6:30 AM

# housing stock

A new plan to deal with the social housing crisis is on its way

Alan Kelly wants the plan to be before the government within the next few weeks.

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Sep 17th 2014, 4:09 PM

# thornton heights

President Higgins opens new housing scheme named after 1916 rebel female doctor

It took 10 years for the scheme in Inchicore to be completed.

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Sep 9th 2014, 6:59 PM

# EU Commission

READ: Nessa Childers' attack on Phil Hogan over social housing

She said Hogan’s appointment in Europe would be “a step backwards for equality.”

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Sep 3rd 2014, 2:26 PM

# gaffs

House prices in the Irish market are still undervalued, says ESRI

The research finds that there is no sign of a ‘bubble’ in the domestic market.

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Aug 7th 2014, 6:30 AM

# was it for this

SIPTU using 1916 centenary to highlight housing shortages

Commemoration will “ring hollow” if Irish citizens still “languishing on housing lists”.

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Aug 1st 2014, 5:43 PM

# Housing Crisis

There's enough land zoned for housing to build 500,000 new homes

The Government says that “proper management of all State land is critical”.

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Jul 30th 2014, 6:30 AM

# Housing Crisis

Nama has over 5,000 units suitable for social housing, but they've only handed over 13%

Despite 790 housing units available for Dublin social housing, just 171 have been transferred to the council.

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Jul 29th 2014, 5:48 PM

# action

Is 'Part V' a boom-time housing tax, or the answer to social housing waiting lists?

This sector of the Planning and Development requires developers to set aside a set percentage

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Jul 12th 2014, 10:00 AM

# Homelessness

Burton's social housing promises 'can't be more spin'

The new Labour leader is being asked to scrap the Home Assistance Payment.

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Jul 7th 2014, 6:30 AM

# Arrears

'The entire system is rubbish': Just 40 houses bought through mortgage-to-rent scheme

David Hall, Director of the Irish Mortgage Holders’ Organisation, said it is “sickening” that it’s cheaper for banks to repossess a house than it is to participate in the scheme.

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Jun 28th 2014, 7:45 AM

# massaging numbers

'Hopeless fantasy': McVerry warns that homelessness will increase by 2016, not be eliminated

Joan Burton defended the government’s Housing Bill at the launch of the Peter McVerry Trust Annual Report 2013. The Trust helped 3,586 people last year, up from 383 six years ago.

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Jun 25th 2014, 1:34 PM

# Belfast

"I was shattered": Nigerian man arrives home to racist protest on his doorstep

Protesters held signs saying ‘Local homes for local people’ and told him he shouldn’t have been given his council house.

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Jun 19th 2014, 3:11 PM

# PROBLEM SOLVING

Is this the 'ambitious action' needed to fix Ireland's social housing market?

A new report has said the sector is ‘at a crossroads’.

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Jun 11th 2014, 6:00 AM

Voices

Opinion: The election results offer radical possibilities to solve the housing crisis in Dublin – here’s how

The people of Dublin city have voted for a majority left-wing council. Now let’s see what they can do with it.

Jun 1st 2014, 12:00 PM

# Spending spree

Here's how the government is going to spend the €200 million it raised from asset sales

Cash for the GAA, pyrite redress, cyclepaths and road improvements are all in the pipeine.

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May 14th 2014, 10:46 AM

# Housing Crisis

New funding to boost house construction but Dublin city to see budget slashed

Councillors want answers over why their housing budget is to be cut by 50 per cent over the next two years.

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May 14th 2014, 10:29 AM

# Have Ye No Homes

Is this the solution to Ireland's social housing problems?

The problem is generally considered to be stock. But, a plan put before South Dublin County Council could solve that.

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May 11th 2014, 7:45 AM

# Oireachtas agenda

Homelessness and taking DNA samples from suspected criminals

Everything happening in Leinster House today.

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May 1st 2014, 9:00 AM

# Homelessness

'Getting worse by the night': TDs debate Ireland's growing housing crisis

The government was accused of demonstrating “arrogance beyond belief” as only three members of the coalition attended the discussion.

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Apr 30th 2014, 9:54 PM

# ALONE

An ageing population and lack of housing could cause headaches for the government

ALONE has made the warning as it launches a nationwide housing campaign.

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Apr 25th 2014, 1:06 PM

# ignored

Over 232,000 children in Ireland are living in poverty

A review of Ireland’s economy also pointed out that the poorest ten per cent of the population had been hit hardest and said this has been “more or less ignored”.

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Apr 22nd 2014, 7:46 AM