Category: Housing
No ordinary housing crisis
Rory Hearne 14/06/2018
This is no ordinary crisis. The Irish housing system is in a state of ‘structural ‘shock’. Home-ownership rates have collapsed to levels not …
Housing precarity and the private rental sector
Michael Byrne 06/03/2018
Much of the response to rapid growth of the private rental sector has focused on the issue of high rent levels. This is hardly surprising given that …
Property, fundamentals, and affordability (part 2)
Robert Sweeney 15/12/2017
Part 1 of this blog examined whether and to what extent the trajectory of Irish property prices was driven by changes in underlying fundamentals. We …
Property, fundamentals, and affordability (part 1)
Robert Sweeney 11/12/2017
The season of goodwill to all is quickly approaching. Last year, that goodwill manifested itself in an outpouring of solidarity for the homeless in …
Apollo House Homeless Occupation
Paul Sweeney 22/12/2016
Last week the Irish state borrowed a load of money. The interest rate we will pay was minus 0.42% Yes, the lenders competed with each other to PAY …
A spiral out of control
Rory Hearne 11/11/2016
The Minister for Housing, Simon Coveney, indicated yesterday that he is not going to introduce rent regulation/certainty as it might deter the …
Rising rents
Rory Hearne 09/11/2016
The Daft property website’s latest quarterly rental report shows rents rose nationwide by an average of 11.7 per cent in the last year. This is the …
The Private Rental Crisis: Towards a Solution
05/10/2016
P.J. Drudy: A recent survey of rising rents by Daft.ie is a further wake-up call for all of us and for the government. During the last three months …
Housing and homelessness crisis worsens
Rory Hearne 25/08/2016
Rory Hearne: This week’s figures on homelessness and rent increases provide further evidence of the on-going housing crisis. Unfortunately the …
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Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
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Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …