What happens when Generation Rent grows old?
As buying a home becomes increasingly difficult, renters face challenges in retirement
Just one quarter of people renting do so by choice - survey
More than half of respondents say they rent because they are unable to buy their own home
Covid-19: Plan for easing restrictions criticised by hospitality and construction groups
Organisations for restaurants and pubs hit out at lack of clarity for such businesses
Housing charity intervened in 100 attempted illegal evictions during Covid-19
Nearly 300 tenants served notices of termination during Covid-19 eviction moratorium
Co-living developments may be the slums of the next decade, housing seminar told
Survey finds 85 per cent of tenants do not want to be in pivate rented sector
Latest rise in homeless figures ‘particularly remarkable’, TD says
Housing charity Threshold says it helped 11,000 people to remain in homes last year
Dublin Economics Workshop to feature Robert Watt
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform official to be keynote speaker at forum
The Irish Times view on the homelessness crisis: rebalancing rights
Housing charity Threshold recorded 50% rise in number of calls from tenants served notices to quit
Landlords who breach rent price caps will be fined
Eoghan Murphy says Residential Tenancies Board to be given powers to enforce breaches of rent price caps
Dramatic rise in calls to Threshold from tenants in danger of eviction
There is ‘increased vulnerability’ in the housing sector, says agency chairwoman
Rent caps should cease, Dublin City Council told
Council house tenant succession and purchase rights must be halted, report urges
‘Significant number’ of rented homes don’t comply with regulations
Houses failed to comply with new regulations setting minimum health and safety standards
Most tenants rent ‘as they cannot get mortgage or social housing’
Almost half of renters feel insecure in their tenancy, according to Threshold survey
Dublin council ‘needs 100 inspectors’ to tackle rental overcrowding
Threshold calls for NCT-style certification for properties after investigation exposes flaws
Ireland’s slum-like private rental sector exposed in undercover investigation
Landlords who rent out slum-like houses and flats described as ‘sharks and vultures’
Threshold says landlords doing minimal maintenance to raise rents
Housing charity claims landlords are finding ways to ‘weed out’ poorer families
Two month deposit will put people at risk of homelessness - Threshold
Setting financial bar so high is effectively screening potential tenants – spokeswoman
What can be done about housing crisis? Experts give their views
Suggestions include a site planning tax and ways to tackle the number of vacant houses
Rent control plan ‘step in right direction’, say housing advocacy groups
Call for scheme’s extension to Galway, Limerick and around Dublin and Cork cities
Planning delays cited in €4,000 a year rise in homebuilding costs
Oireachtas committee told Dublin beset by ‘fundamental shortage’ of ready-to-go sites
Budget 2017: Housing agencies respond to measures
Groups welcome €1.2bn funding but divided over effectiveness of help-to-buy scheme
Cork tenancy scheme ‘prevented 2,600 from becoming homeless’
Threshold says matching supplement to rent increases is cost-effective way of preventing homelessness
Helping first-time buyers ‘may increase house prices’
Economist Colm McCarthy says incentives will ‘add to the pressure of excess demand’
Row looms in Dáil over housing being sold by vulture funds
Proposed PRTB buy-to-let code of conduct faces opposition from financial institutions
Charities dismayed at modular housing delays
Council publishes fresh tender for over 150 units in areas including Drimnagh, Finglas
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