Social Housing Policy in Ireland: New Directions
The answer, as argued in this transformative new book, lies in establishing a Constitutional right to housing, large scale investment in a new model of public housing to meet social and affordable housing need, real reform of the private ...
This chapter presents an analysis of some of these inequalities in the Irish housing system, with the main emphasis on ... Applicants for social housing face access problems as the number of households on the waiting list has grown ...
However, the larger picture is that local authorities have made a fundamental contribution to social progress and social cohesion in Irish society through the expansion of housing provision and the raising of minimum housing standards ...
Chapter 9 Irish Social Housing In The European Context The discussion presented up to this point has attempted to ... of social housing as a fully fledged tenure which can make a meaningful contribution to meeting the housing needs of ...
The book provides an up-to-date international comparison of social housing policy and practice. It offers an analysis of how the social housing system currently works in each country, supported by relevant statistics.
An Analysis of Social Housing Need
This equates to 16%, or one in six of all households in Ireland (likely to be over half a million people) facing severe housing unaffordability and insecurity, and in need of social and affordable housing. This figure is almost four ...
Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within the broader global housing situation by examining the origins of the crisis in terms of austerity, marketisation and the new era of financialisation, where global investors are making ...
Using contemporary research, policy and practice examples, this book uses the Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine homelessness as a pattern of residential instability and economic precariousness regularly ...