Sinn Féin’s grand plan for housing: Will it work?
A bonfire of Government housing support schemes is a step into the unknown - even if the promise is for a better future
A bonfire of Government housing support schemes is a step into the unknown - even if the promise is for a better future
Party will pledge 175,000 new homes for private purchase, self-build or rent over five years
Conall Mac Coille concerned about discrepancy between number of registered tenancies and figures on sector from 2022 census
Even if the party can pivot the overarching political discussion from immigration to housing, the terms of engagement will not be the same as in 2020
Affordable homes would cost no more than €300,000 but the State would continue to own the land on which they are built
Department of Housing confirms four ‘pathfinder’ projects to identify ‘pinch points’
One of the biggest pieces of legislation in the history of the State is intended to speed up housing supply and will allow for restructuring of An Bord Pleanála
Opposition claims Government’s Housing for All plan for 33,450 new builds this year will not be delivered
Buyers with incomes over €106,000 will qualify for State-subsidised homes at Oscar Traynor Road
Latest measures do not extend requirement for sprinklers in underground car parks, Oireachtas Committee on Housing told
Commission calls for ‘radical strategic reset of housing policy’ as Sinn Féin says leaked findings are ‘damning indictment’ of Government
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The party soared on opposition to Government policy on housing but it faces a huge challenge in its positioning on immigration
Index compiled by organisation that wrote to Mary Lou McDonald last year expressing ‘alarm’ at case being taken against The Irish Times
The national standardised average rent in new tenancies stood at €1,595 per month in the final months of last year, with fastest growing average rent in Limerick
Despite extreme need, Department of Housing fails to use €141 million available to it last year and carries it over into 2024
Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin says figures show if land-related costs are kept in State ownership and extracted from final value, ‘you can sell bricks-and-mortar house at a price below €300,000′
First-time buyers are increasingly competing for new homes with AHBs, non-profit providers of social homes and key bodies for the Government in fixing the housing crisis
Planning and Development Bill wording offers ‘flexibility’ in building more social housing, says Fine Gael’s Kieran O’Donnell
Eoin Ó Broin brought forward legislation to make advertising such offers illegal, as ‘preventative measure’
Minister for Housing ‘rejects outright’ assertion he would deliberately or otherwise mislead anyone
Officials had ‘concern’ about increase in migrants becoming homeless, internal documents show
Darragh O’Brien says 500 people a week are drawing down loans for their first homes
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Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin says homeless children need homes ‘not cheap soundbites’
The party’s politics works by setting ‘outsiders’ against home-owning ‘insiders’. But fixes demand complex trade-offs
Government and Opposition politicians express ‘disappointment’ over State body’s postponement of meeting until January
Figures should include rough sleepers and people in accommodation not funded by the State, Ó Broin says
Peter McVerry Trust struggles with financial crisis, while several local authorities are reviewing plans to develop housing with homelessness charity
An interrogation of the Coalition’s flagship plan to address the housing crisis paints a very mixed picture
State’s main opposition party - consistently topping opinion polls - is tinkering with its stances on tax and foreign policy as it seeks to present itself as a party of Government
When it was established in 2017, the Housing Agency Acquisitions fund had a target of acquiring 1,600 units over four years
People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith was speaking as Sinn Féin put forward a motion condemning Budget 2024′s housing measures
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