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by Mannix Flynn The root cause of the homelessness crisis in Ireland is the broken housing system. Ireland does not have a public housing system to meet the needs of the society. The biggest mistake was the decision by Labour’s Joan Burton to cut social housing spending by 72% between 2008 and 2012 (€1.38bn to […]
Both NAMA (The National Asset Management Agency) and Local Authorities have been criticised for ‘land-hoarding’, ‘sitting’ on sites particularly in Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) and not developing land that could be used to address the current housing crisis. Despite the amount of land under their control, Minister Eoghan Murphy has recently asked the […]
The State has spent €5.5bn on rent supports since 2002 – with the money, it could have built 30,000 new local authority homes.
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Welfare renters are prevented from paying market rents, on the ridiculous pretext that below-market rates can be maintained. This breaches their human rights.
The banks know that behind images of silverhaired, debt-free retirees, there is a darker, contrasting mural, crammed with a sea of worried faces.
The housing crisis is an emergency, which threatens to affect us all. Something has to change. Let’s start by putting the right to housing in the Constitution.
Leo puts the reputational cart before the horse; “affordable” housing in Dalkey; and no change in Ireland’s quality of water – news miscellany from the latest issue.
Homelessness was always a winter story and affected individuals only. Now it’s an all-year narrative and the homeless are no longer just isolated individuals -although they are still there – but families, in all their forms and colour. Our recent research for the Housing Agency report, ‘Family experiences of path- ways into homelessness – the families’perspective’, […]