Full coverage: Housing

It says a lot about the capacity of our state that it can grasp and grapple with Donald Trump more easily and with more surety than putting bricks on top of other bricks in fields outside of towns and cities.

The challenge of finding accommodation for staff is evolving from a major concern expressed in anonymised business surveys into a toxic mix of unhealthy attitudes and practices.

It is absolutely right that, in a democratic system, the people – at national and local level – help set the parameters on housing policy. However, the State has a responsibility to those not living somewhere yet. It must provide for the future as well as the present.

Housing completions have been flatlining for three years. At the same time, Ireland has experienced one of the biggest population increases in the world. The Government's approach to housing is not working.

A decade after Ireland’s mortgage rules cooled the market, house prices are rising again — this time driven by supply shortages.

Dublin City Council blocked journalists’ requests for access to private emergency accommodation payments for almost a decade. The public procurement of multi-million-euro contracts should never be a state secret.

In 2023, the State paid private property owners €140m – and rising – to put a roof over the heads of Dubliners left out in the cold by the housing crisis. In the first part of a major series, we name the biggest earners.

The Central Bank’s latest report confirms what many suspected — the systemic failures in Irish housing policy remain unaddressed.

Flood risk is no longer invisible in Ireland. The same needs to happen for the wider climate risks shaping the homes we build, buy, and live in.

By shifting away from private apartment construction in favour of state partnerships, the housing developer reported enviable profits for 2024.