# housing - Thursday 6 March, 2014
Two more Kildare estates have received letters saying their electricity could be switched off.
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# housing - Tuesday 4 March, 2014
Negotiations are said to be ongoing between Kildare County Council and ESB Networks on the issue.
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# housing - Sunday 2 March, 2014
From an imagined post-2020 perspective, barrister and co-founder of New Beginning Vincent P Martin, considers how our current housing crisis might play out in the near future.
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When the economy collapsed the banks got top priority. Building workers and people who need social housing were far down the pecking order. Now they’re telling us a miracle is on the way…
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# housing - Wednesday 26 February, 2014
FOLD Ireland used private funds to redevelop a housing project in north Dublin after ownership was transferred from Dublin City Council.
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Incumbent property owners receive special privileges in Ireland – meaning some mortgagors will walk out of this crisis with the same assets they walked into it with, despite not paying for them, writes Karl Deeter.
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Applications open today for the €10 million scheme that allows remedial work to be carried out on qualifying homes.
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Minister Burton told the family to ‘think anew about your family’s many needs’ and how they can be met within the housing market as it exists at the moment.
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# housing - Thursday 20 February, 2014
This weekend the Constitutional Convention will consider the issue of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Peter McVerry Trust believes this is the perfect opportunity for the right to a home to be included in the Constitution.
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# housing - Wednesday 19 February, 2014
Our boom-time housing policy has transformed the need for housing as a social necessity into an asset of speculation for financial institutions, writes Cillian Doyle.
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# housing - Tuesday 18 February, 2014
The Athy estate has been finished following an initiative between NAMA and Clúid.
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Yesterday, four women shared their stories of facing eviction and living with homelessness. We want to hear yours.
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# housing - Monday 17 February, 2014
Their stories have been highlighted in a video released by a People Before Profit candidate in Meath.
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# housing - Friday 14 February, 2014
Derek Keating was a county councillor when the social housing was agreed upon, but says that he didn’t understand the implications of the plan before he was a TD.
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# housing - Tuesday 11 February, 2014
The new fund will move people onto the mortgage to rent scheme for those who have unsustainable mortgages.
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# housing - Wednesday 5 February, 2014
Yearly mooring charges are set to change as living on a houseboat becomes popular, but some midlands politicians aren’t happy.
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# housing - Friday 31 January, 2014
Rent are rising but our pay packets aren’t. Why? Because our housing strategy is based almost exclusively on debt-fuelled private home ownership, writes Mick Byrne.
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# housing - Thursday 23 January, 2014
In a report published today, Threshold said last year was their busiest year ever recorded.
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# housing - Tuesday 21 January, 2014
The relaunched ‘Montrose Student Residence’ — just across the N11 from UCD — will open its doors in September.
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# housing - Monday 13 January, 2014
A survey by Ulster Bank found rising activity has prompted firms to expand their staffing levels.
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# housing - Thursday 9 January, 2014
However Minister of State Jan O’Sullivan said she believes changes will allow for people to stay in their homes.
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# housing - Wednesday 8 January, 2014
In Dublin, however, commencements rose by eleven per cent as demand for housing in the capital bounces back.
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# housing - Monday 6 January, 2014
The 2013 house price report from property website Daft.ie shows more evidence of Ireland’s two-tier housing market.
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# housing - Saturday 4 January, 2014
Proposing a simplistic solution to arbitrarily attempt to solve one facet of Ireland’s housing problem is just bad policymaking, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# housing - Thursday 2 January, 2014
What do you think?
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While local authorities are responsible for repairs and maintenances on their housing stock, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government has been funding retrofitting of vacant homes.
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# housing - Wednesday 25 December, 2013
Sophia House does incredible work bringing people from homelessness to independent living. Their chef Trevor Kearns will cook Christmas dinner for them today.
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# housing - Saturday 21 December, 2013
There is real and personal housing need in Ireland, which affects individuals and families opportunities to develop their lives and contribution to society, writes Dr Padraic Kenna.
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# housing - Monday 16 December, 2013
In the case of two women moved out of homelessness, they now have appropriate accommodation to have overnight access to their children.
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# housing - Tuesday 10 December, 2013
Were you thinking of a buying a golf course for a loved one this Christmas? You missed your chance today.
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# housing - Sunday 8 December, 2013
Sixteen families are now losing their homes in the capital every month, according to Focus Ireland.
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# housing - Wednesday 27 November, 2013
Focus Ireland has said a worrying number of families are losing their homes. The charity has helped more than 9,000 homeless – or at risk of being homeless – people so far this year.
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# housing - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
One desperate renter details what it’s like to live in a substandard apartment.
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# housing - Monday 18 November, 2013
None of the estates being considered by the government for demolition are currently occupied.
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Although some of the projects have started, many have been affected by government cutbacks and the collapse of the Public Private Partnership Programme.
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# housing - Wednesday 13 November, 2013
Thirty-seven new homes on St Michael’s Road in Longford Town were opened today.
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# housing - Tuesday 5 November, 2013
A new initiative spearheaded by the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation aims to help these borrowers and others who are reluctant to engage with the banks, writes Dr Constantin Gurdgiev.
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# housing - Thursday 31 October, 2013
With property prices increasing in some parts of the country – and notably in Dublin – Ronan Lyons discusses whether we’re looking at a housing boom or a housing bubble.
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# housing - Thursday 24 October, 2013
Access to health services is key to leaving homelessness behind – which is why Budget 2014 is so damaging to the Government’s commitment to end long-term homelessness by 2016, writes Niamh Randall.
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# housing - Friday 18 October, 2013
Our property model has turned the need for a home into a casino for banks and developers; and it’s not just an Irish housing crisis – it’s a European one, writes Mick Byrne.
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