Housing crisis

Reforming the planning laws: ‘It was never going to be a short-term solution to the housing problem’

Within weeks An Bord Pleánala will become An Coimisiún Pleanála - but what impact will it have and how is it changing?

Paschal Donohoe on How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World; Making Sense of Chaos; and Why We’re Getting Poorer

These authors seek to understand the behaviour of economies and the influence they have on our societies

The ‘gentrification’ of Dublin: ‘Young people are coming in, buying houses and gutting them’

With house prices continuing to rise, homebuyers are moving to traditionally more affordable neighbourhoods in Dublin to get on the property ladder

Planning permission sought for Clonskeagh student homes

Bain Capital backed firm seeking permission for 439 bed spaces near UCD

Are the Government spooked by the consequences of the Occupied Territories Bill?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

James Browne has little power to fix the housing crisis. The status quo is in charge

Housing gets enormous amounts of money and endless new initiatives. But it has never had an alignment of power and responsibility

Lioncor renews bid to build Terenure development

Company planning 284 homes next to Terenure College

Public Accounts Committee to examine ‘profiteering’ on asylum seeker accommodation, new chairman says

Sinn Féin’s John Brady said people have ‘become millionaires providing sometimes poor quality accommodation’

Landlord moved family out of property for daughter who only stayed there ‘for weekends’

Arrangement terminated due to claim daughter required home, but tribunal hears she never moved in full-time, staying at the property ‘for weekends’

Newly-qualified nurses being ‘driven away’ from profession due to high housing costs

Nurses working in Cork and Dublin spending up to 77% of wages on rent

Ministers need to stop pointing out obstacles to delivery - and start tackling them

Constant headlines about housing schemes being struck down by councils, the planning board and the courts are chipping away at public confidence

Public perception of planning system worsens while harsh reality of housing crisis hits homes

Delays, legal challenges, political tensions and negative media coverage are compounding the continuing crisis

Older people and downsizing: ‘We hated selling our home but it became a necessity’

Mobility issues and being closer to family are reasons to ‘right-size’ in your twilight years - but don’t leave it too late

An Bord Pleanála failure to decide on applications delays up to 6,000 apartments

Planning board hit by more than €1.4m in fines for failure to process over 140 ‘strategic housing development’ applications on time

‘Thousands’ of new homes delayed due to electricity access

ESB Networks acknowledges ‘limited’ capacity in some locations

Approval for over 100 new homes in Co Cork overturned by High Court

An Bord Pleanála’s view of its obligations under county development plan ‘conveniently Jesuitical’, says judge

Fianna Fáil says salary for head of Housing Activation Office will not be ‘anywhere near’ €430,000

Party TD Seamus McGrath does not accept the appointment has been ‘botched’

There is a crisis of accountability at the top of the Irish public service

We call housing a ‘crisis’ but don’t deal with it that way

Miriam Lord’s week: A tsar has not been born and they need to get this tshitshow off the road

James Browne talks up his A-Team, TDs watch the pros in action while Pa Daly delights in saying nothing

Micheál Martin’s first 100 days: Coalition has achieved little amid delivery gaps and Dáil discord

Trump heads a list of challenges for the Taoiseach that includes housing, childcare, pensions and a raucous Dáil. He could hardly be said to have hit the ground running

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