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Promoting leadership in housing

“Brave and effective leadership is what is required to solve Ireland’s housing crisis,” according to Bob Jordan, CEO of The…

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2023 new dwelling targets on track

Construction of new dwellings appears to be on track to at least meet, if not exceed, Housing for All targets…

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The Secure Tenancy Affordable Rental investment scheme (STAR)

STAR is a welcome initiative to engage the State with private developers in delivering cost rental housing. A keen appetite…

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Budget 2024: Government subsidising landlords

Budget 2024 offers a broad set of initiatives which ultimately fail to tackle the root causes of Ireland’s housing crisis:…

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Over 4,300 affordable homes to alleviate Ireland’s housing crisis

Respond, Ireland’s largest construction-led Approved Housing Body and service provider is on track to triple the number of social and…

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Cian O’Callaghan TD: ‘Getting Ireland’s proud housing history back into the public discourse’

In late September, a Social Democrats’ affordable housing motion calling on the Government to publish figures for the delivery of…

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Incentivising retrofit through Ireland’s tax system

Urgent policy intervention is needed to decarbonise construction at the scale required to achieve Ireland’s net zero targets by 2050,…

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LDA Report on Relevant Public Land

The Land Development Agency (LDA) launched its first Report on Relevant Public Land in March 2023. The report explores the…

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How did the eviction ban impact homelessness in Ireland?

The eviction ban in place from November 2022 until the end of March 2023 did not lead to a reduction…

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Delivering affordable homes

Affordability is at the core of the Government’s Housing for All policy, with a target of 6,000 affordable homes to…

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