Full coverage: Housing

New data shows how Covid has taken a problem that had been concentrated in Ireland’s urban rental markets and exported it to the rest of the country. But it has also changed the sales market too – from where people are buying to what size of property they want.

When it comes to housing, there have been far too many people expressing opinions that a proposed new development isn't perfect – and therefore should not take place.

Ciara Sheahan had a steady career in real estate, but while looking for ways to set her property franchise apart, she stumbled across a technology that led her to co-found Orb Media, Ireland's only 360 experience company. She talks about the ups and downs of her career, what she learned along the way, and being a woman in business.

Modular buildings were hailed as the solution to Ireland’s housing crisis. But the sector has seen significant setbacks, due in large part to added strain on the private housing market and a shortage in construction supplies caused by the pandemic.

Foreign funds, rising rents and scarce mortgages are symptoms of a collective decision to insulate the borrowers of the past at the expense of the borrowers of today. Consequently, the prospect of home ownership is ever more distant for far too many.

Labour senator Rebecca Moynihan on how her party lost its way and why building houses is more important than idealism.

Special Development Zones were designated to deliver tens of thousands of homes, and have largely failed. Now fast-track Strategic Housing Developments, too, are under threat from the increasing use of the courts by objectors, warns urban planner Tom Phillips.

We are not yet through Covid, and the housing crisis is already back on centre stage. In this extensive interview, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O'Brien talks about how he intends to turn things around.

Nowhere in Irish life is the gap wider between diagnosis and potential cure than housing. Housing is complex, complicated, political, distributional, financial. It is all of these and more. Darragh O’Brien needs a solution to housing that figures out the social physics of it.

Multiple assessments of the Irish economy agree that the long-term issues facing us are intergenerational inequality, firms dealing with technological change, and climate change. Here is how we can tackle them.