Listen – whether you love or hate Green TD Joe O’Brien, there’s one thing you can’t take away from that man; he truly understands the gravity of the housing crisis and the problems in Direct Provision. Which makes it all the more confusing why he would oppose a social housing plan in his own neighbourhood. […]
Research from Eurostat has shown that Ireland had the third highest level of rent increases in the EU between 2020 and the third quarter of 2021. Rents here have jumped by almost 70% in that period, compared to an EU average growth of under 20%. Interestingly, house prices have “only” increased by close to the […]
Selling Ireland has Cromwellian echoes
Rents doubled
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
Last night, Dublin City Council voted by 36 to 23 to approve the building of 853 housing units at Oscar Traynor Road on the north side of Dublin. The Glenveagh development will be in the ratio of 40:40:20 – social housing: affordable housing: and cost rental – long term tenancy with a rent that covers […]
The leader of the Rural Group, Mattie McGrath TD has long campaigned on the need for extensive renovation grants to be made available to restore properties
Over the past decade, Ireland has embraced just about every left wing, anti-landlord, pro tenant, measure it could think of
At the start of November there were only 1,460 properties available to rent across the entire country, and prices are increasing rapidly.
The missing factor here is perhaps an absence of political will created by an abandonment of any foundational vision of what an independent Ireland might be.
The squat in Dublin was against the law.
And students can’t have it both ways