The housing need demand assessment artificially suppresses housing in the east of the country. It needs to go.
Questions are often asked about who will build housing, how it will be built, in what quantity it will be built, what form it will take, and when it will be built. There’s much less discussion over where it will all be built.
Beyond immediate shelter, more and more people need complex assistance to escape entrenched homelessness. Price competition between charities has pushed the sector to the brink, but procurement policy is now changing.
The risk of a riot is, in the grand scheme of things, minimal. The risk of being injured by a car is far greater. This is what makes Dublin City Council's car-centric response to the riots so perplexing.
DC EV is turning the leap of going electric into a no-strings-attached monthly subscription, while GoPlugable lets neighbours share their home chargers for money. Both are ready to launch.
A plan to build 1,000 apartments has been hit by disputes and delays for nearly 20 years. It is finally moving but only after Dublin City Council recut key aspects to make it viable for Bartra, its privately-owned developer with a Hong Kong guarantee.
The inclusion of new homes in the redevelopment of the south Dublin coastal facility are at the centre of a dispute going legal for the second time.
Past proposals to redevelop the Hendrons building attracted opposition across the political spectrum. A new American fund manager now wants to deliver housing on the semi-derelict site.
Policing only comes onto the political agenda when its shortcomings provide an opportunity to attack the Government. We have seen this again with the response to the riots in Dublin last week.
Thursday marked the end of Irish exceptionalism. An end to the belief that we were different from other nations and that we were immune from the rise of the extreme right and from the appeal of the strong man/weak man narrative.
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