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Irish Housing and Renting Crisis Worsens
The chances of first-time buyers in the Republic being able to afford houses or apartments of their own continue to worsen and rents move eternally upwards while Government inaction ensures that no improvement is in sight. A particularly good analysis of the root causes and the continuing ones was given in an article by Dr. Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor/ Lecturer in Social Policy at the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University. He is the author of Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it (Policy Press, 2020). Some pertinent quotes from his article capture the overall position.
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Indoor dining, aviation and housing supply much on the government’s agenda. For reaction and analysis to what came out of yesterday’s meetings Pat was joined on the show this morning by Danny McConnell, Political Editor, Irish Examiner andDr. Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor Social Policy at Maynooth University and author of Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it.
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The Government does not actually want you to be able to buy or rent an affordable home. They have created an unaffordable housing system that is focused on delivering housing as an investment asset, not a home.
Dr Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor at Maynooth University and author of Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it, has gone viral for his article on TheJournal.ie which details his outlook on various Governments policies around housing since the Celtic Tiger.
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