Category: Housing
Housing 2020
Rory Hearne 05/02/2020
This election is fundamental for housing. Whoever gets elected on Saturday will implement policies that will shape our housing system for decades to …
The 10 reasons why house prices and rents must fall
PJ Drudy 08/10/2018
House prices in recent years should never have been allowed to soar to the point where they have become unaffordable for the vast majority of …
No ordinary housing crisis
Rory Hearne 20/06/2018
As I outlined in the first part of this article (see link here), the housing and homelessness crisis is no ordinary crisis. This is not a temporary …
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 …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …