Full coverage: Housing

The housing estate in Rathmolyon, Co Meath, was aimed at first-time buyers but when it ran into trouble it featured extensively in the media. Now a liquidator has been appointed to it.

Now in his 16th budget debate as Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson, Pearse Doherty outlines ideological differences with the Government on housing, the taxation of large and small businesses, and income redistribution in a cost-of-living crisis.

The Government hopes to boost delivery as it lags behind targets amid a constant crisis. But will the moves have the desired effect and what for those trying to get on the housing ladder or struggling to make rent?

Ireland does not suffer from too many homes. It suffers from too few. Vacancy is not the challenge. Scarcity is.

Oliver Callan’s review of Leo Varadkar’s memoir criticised the former Taoiseach’s attitude towards the “housing disaster”. Complex issues deserve better than simple words.

For years, the Cosgrave Property Group has tried to unlock a vast development site on the edge of Bray. The firm is now turning to the High Court.

Regulations should be judged not by their aims but by their effects. From housing standards to climate policy, well-meaning rules in Ireland risk pricing people out of homes and stifling urban renewal — unless policymakers properly weigh costs, benefits, and trade-offs.

There is a ubiquity to housing shortages across much of the Western world. Tim White, a research fellow at the London School of Economics, outlines the need for deterrence on institutional investors.

The collapse in new housing starts this year isn’t just a post-incentive hangover – it’s a sign of deeper issues in how Ireland is building, planning, and managing its long-term housing strategy.

Having resisted media efforts to report on the destination of vast public spending to tackle homelessness for the past decade, authorities are slowly changing tack.