Laoise Neylon

Dublin

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A new book weighs up the history and impact of selling off Ireland’s social homes to tenants

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Councils across Ireland sell about 350 homes to social tenants each year, at a discount of 40 percent to 60 percent of homes’ market value. In the generations since independence, the Irish state has sold off around two-thirds of all social housing that was built up to 2000. That would appear to be a major ingredient in the current affordable housing crisis.
Councils are unlawfully refusing people access to homeless accommodation, say lawyers

1 week ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Charities that provide legal advice on housing issues are calling on council chiefs to revoke a protocol councils rely on to refuse people access to homeless accommodation in their areas. It has no basis in law, solicitors say. The protocol, which was issued in 2023, says a person can only get homeless accommodation in the county where they have their main local connection.
Council should buy the old TU Dublin site on Kevin Street and build homes, say councillors

2 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

On Kevin Street in Dublin 8, concrete pillars prop up the second storey of an unfinished building. A sign reads: “Revealing a new office and residential campus in the city”. The Camden Yard development, on land formerly owned by TU Dublin, has planning permission for a large mixed-use development in five blocks reaching to 14 storeys at its highest. The plan was to build mostly offices, together with 299 build-to-rent apartments.
After Tusla flip-flop, judge orders agency to provide care leaver with reasons for its determination on abuse allegations

2 weeks ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Last month, a care leaver won her judicial review against Tusla, after the agency changed its position regarding her complaint of abuse by a former foster family. Justice Micheál O’Higgins instructed the agency to provide the care leaver with reasons for its decision that her allegations were unfounded, according to the judgment.
A scheme to speed up social housing has barely been used by Dublin councils

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Three of the four Dublin-area councils didn’t use a fast-track system for funding social housing for any of the homes that they built last year. To access funding for new social homes, councils usually have to go back and forth with the Department of Housing, through what is known as the four-stage approvals process. The system has come in for regular criticism as slow and bureaucratic, taking, on average, more than 120 weeks, and so creating long lead-in times for new homes.
Tusla has failed to deliver on its plan to reduce the proportion of children’s homes run by private companies

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

“Having private, for-profit care goes against all you are trying to achieve for children in care,” says Terry Dignan, a spokesperson for the Children’s Residential and Aftercare Voluntary Association, representing the charities that run children’s homes, among other services. There is a major shortage of placements for kids in care, so some are being moved around between emergency placements.
Should the Land Development Agency build some private housing on public land?

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

The government is looking into whether to ask the Land Development Agency to build more private housing on public land banks, according to a 28 April Irish Times article. However, the Department of Housing hasn’t responded to a query sent Tuesday, asking in what circumstances it envisages that the LDA would develop private market-price homes on state lands.
Advocates are pushing for survivors of industrial schools to get priority for social housing

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Advocates for survivors of industrial schools, from Sage Advocacy, met with council managers from across Ireland this week to ask them to consider prioritising industrial school survivors for social housing. Getting social housing priority significantly speeds up the process of getting a social home. Damian O’Farrell, a former Dublin city councillor who is now a project manager with Sage Advocacy, says the state has a particular responsibility to survivors of the industrial schools.
Time and again, long-term tenants evicted and their homes turned into homeless accommodation

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

Much of Park House on Ashdale Road in Terenure is a building site. A cement mixer whirrs in the garden. A sign warns of the need for helmets and protective footwear. But Margaret Bergin still lives with her partner in an apartment on the ground floor in the west wing of the big brick house with a gabled roof – as they have for about a decade, she says. Earlier this year, they got a notice to quit on the grounds of substantial refurbishment.
If councils rezone more land, will it really speed up house-building?

1 month ago | dublininquirer.com | Laoise Neylon

The Minister for Housing, Fianna Fáil TD James Browne, and the Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil TD Micheál Martin, both said recently that councils need to rezone more land so developers can build more homes. “Councils will be instructed by the minister to rezone, to do their county development plans pronto, get more land available for housing,” said Martin, in an Irish Times podcast earlier this month. “That is an important enabler for many, many builders out there,” he said.

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Laoise Neylon @LaoiseNeylon

4 May 25

This is the most amazing story. New housing tsar understands the causes of the housing crisis, very well. Its him! He's in breach of planning, and existing short-term lets legislation. You seriously couldn't make this up. @wereontheditch

The Ditch @wereontheditch

NAMA chief Brendan McDonagh’s north Dublin home – which The Ditch revealed was registered under the alias PB McDonnacha – is being advertised to rent on a short-term letting site for more than €10,000 a week. He was to be government’s new housing tsar. https://t.co/zMYvpxEnvt

Laoise Neylon @LaoiseNeylon

2 May 25

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Laoise Neylon @LaoiseNeylon

22 Mar 25

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Articles

A new book weighs up the history and impact of selling off Ireland’s social homes to tenants

Councils are unlawfully refusing people access to homeless accommodation, say lawyers

Council should buy the old TU Dublin site on Kevin Street and build homes, say councillors

After Tusla flip-flop, judge orders agency to provide care leaver with reasons for its determination on abuse allegations

A scheme to speed up social housing has barely been used by Dublin councils

Tusla has failed to deliver on its plan to reduce the proportion of children’s homes run by private companies

Should the Land Development Agency build some private housing on public land?

Advocates are pushing for survivors of industrial schools to get priority for social housing

Time and again, long-term tenants evicted and their homes turned into homeless accommodation

If councils rezone more land, will it really speed up house-building?

Journalists covering the same region

James McCarthy

Michael Scott

Alistair Dunsmuir

Louise Easton

Roger Cox

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