Housing Activation Office explainer: How does it differ from what the Housing Commission recommended?
Leadership aside, the biggest departure from what the commission recommended is that the new body will have no legislative power
Housing crisis
The homeless university lecturer: ‘There’s a sense of shame around it’
Screenwriter Jenny Roche was ordered to vacate her rented property in Moycullen, Co Galway, having overheld for more than eight months
Letters to the Editor, May 2nd: On the housing crisis, Kneecap and noisy train passengers
New role of housing tsar ‘risks becoming yet another layer of bureaucracy’
Brendan McDonagh withdraws from consideration for housing ‘tsar’ role after Fine Gael blocks appointment
Tánaiste Simon Harris told Minister for Housing James Browne his party had been ‘out of the loop’
Even at €430,000 a year, Brendan McDonagh would be nuts to take the housing tsar job
McDonagh gives the impression of being someone who does not suffer fools gladly and who believes the media by and large falls firmly into the category of fools
Housing ‘tsar’ salary might be lower than €430,000, say Government sources
Brendan McDonagh might be paid less than he earns at Nama if appointed head of Housing Activation Office
‘Housing tsar’ salary causing a mounting headache for the Coalition
James Browne’s intervention on appointment has already led to a thinly veiled rebuke from a spokesman for Simon Harris
Clamping down on Airbnb should be scrapped
ESRI research raises fundamental questions about need for legislation to tighten short term lettings rules
What will the Housing Activation Office – and possible chief executive Brendan McDonagh – do?
Housing Activation Office intended to speed up housing by bringing in local authorities, developers and utilities
Balbriggan lands zoned for housing guiding at €18.75m
37.5-acre North Dublin holding comes for sale zoned in its entirety for residential development
Ready-to-go residential site in Bray guiding at €2.25m
Bray site has full planning permission for 12 apartments and 12 duplexes
Coalition leaders stop short of endorsing Minister’s call for Nama boss as housing ‘tsar’
Nama chief Brendan McDonagh has been identified to role, though not formally appointed
Planning for ‘grossly excessive’ Drumcondra apartments refused for second time
Locals object to ‘excessive scale’ of project, contending it would damage the privacy of adjoining properties
The 34th Dáil is finally set to get to work. But what’s on the agenda?
Government is already facing a brewing political row over mooted salary for ‘housing tsar’
Irish average mortgages hit record €328,000 as buyers chase soaring prices
Buyers take on more debt as home prices soar
Taoiseach understands public concern over mooted €430,000 salary for ‘housing tsar’
Plans for new Strategic Housing Activation Office as well as asylum system overhaul and military radar due before Cabinet
Five things your estate agent is too afraid to tell you
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Planning for €30m Castleknock apartment scheme refused
Bartra unit had sought permission for five storey complex
Gardaí must be given State financial assistance to purchase homes, officers to say
Another motion at GRA conference calls on Garda Commissioner to ‘urgently address’ shortage in forensic collision investigators
Housing crisis: Proposals to boost LDA’s remit under consideration to boost housing output
Government considering steps to allow Land Development Agency to build more private housing at its projects
The idea that immigration fuels Ireland’s housing crisis is wrong
What this argument misses is that immigrants are overwhelmingly victims of the housing crisis. By any measure, immigrants come out much worse than Irish-born households
Airbnb landlords and holiday home owners are squeezing native speakers out of Gaeltacht areas
A consequence of the housing crisis is that it is accelerating the decline of the Irish language
Downsizing: The latest ‘quick fix’ to the housing crisis as the Government desperately looks for answers
The Coalition is showing signs of panic on housing in a fruitless search for easy answers
Price of a home in the Republic rose by 9.8% on average in the first quarter, report says
New homes and those seen as more energy efficient are commanding ‘hefty’ premiums, says Geowox
Plans for 316-bed student accommodation in former Independent Newspapers HQ
Summix scheme will preserve the protected Independent House and Emerald Chambers buildings and original printing hall
Number of people in homelessness reaches new record high of 15,418
Emergency accommodation users up by 11.2 per cent over 12 months to end of March, official figures show
‘My heart shattered. There’s no hope for us’: Families react to housing department’s decision on Dublin flats regeneration
Number of homes in Dublin’s Pearse House would have been reduced to give residents more space but department has refused to fund project
Five Fine Gael representatives sign cross-party letter sent by Sinn Féin to housing minister
Cross-party letter asks James Browne to increase funding for a scheme aimed at preventing homelessness
New home completions rise but State still likely to miss targets
CSO data show there were 5,938 new dwelling completions in first quarter of the year, a rise of 2 per cent
Downsizing is fine in theory. In reality, it’s rearranging property deckchairs on the Titanic
Today’s downsizers are closer to 70 and in no mood to rewire and replaster. They want a new build, which means they’ll be outbidding younger couples on a three-bed semi
State missed its target for delivery of social homes in 2024 by almost 20%
Shortfall of more than 2,300 homes on 12,930 goal, though affordable homes beat estimates in some measures
The Irish Times view on Ireland’s teaching crisis: housing central to pressures in education
New graduates entering the teaching profession often find themselves priced out of the very cities where demand for their skills is highest
If planning laws were changed, obsolete offices could be converted into housing to ease Dublin’s rental crisis
In Dublin, 15.3% of office space is vacant, and 64% of existing office stock is considered at risk of obsolescence
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