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The number of young Irish people in their 20s living at home has risen to 47.2% according to research by EU agency Eurofound. Ireland, along with Luxemburg and Romania, have the highest increases in Europe. While throughout other EU countries there was a 2% increase, Ireland saw a 11% increase. According to the report, after the recession many young people had to move back home as they would be the first ones to lose their jobs due to them having just entered the job market. ... read full story / add a comment
“…the best way to solve homelessness in Dublin would be to provide no beds.” Owen Keegan, Dublin City Council’s Chief Executive ... read full story / add a comment
Ireland, with its punishing history of colonisation, has a no less traumatic ‘memory’ of property, its possession and, more importantly, its dispossession or lack... ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Thursday May 21, 2015 - 23:36 by pbp
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Guess where a property speculator can get their best return on investment in the whole world? Dublin. It is unbelievable but true. After chaos wracked on Irish society by the Celtic Tiger property boom, the speculators are back. A global survey by the research company, MSCI, has found that highest profits can be made in Dublin from buying and selling property. Capitalists generally expect to get a 10 percent rate of return on their investment in industry. If they want more, they shift to riskier areas such as property speculation. If they chose their city right, they can get a 19 percent rate of return. But last year, Dublin provided the jackpot with a 44 percent rate of return. ... read full story / add a comment 
“No one deserves to live like this” A poster I came across on a billboard recently, juxtaposed by the wasteland where one of our block of flats used to sit, where working class families used to live happily, side by side, before they were all socially cleansed from the area, and for what? Already a year has passed since they were pulled down to the ground, and all we have to show for it now is a lousy carpark—desperate! Currently, there are over 80 unused empty units in Tom Kelly Flats, some of which have been empty for over five years or more, 3 and 4 bedroom flats too. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Thursday December 04, 2014 - 15:47 by Con Carroll
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it doesnt take to be a scientist, theologian. economic professor to see that Ireland political elite are sitting back with their champagne glasses swinging. dancing to their superior masters of Europe ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Monday July 29, 2013 - 14:49 by nmn
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Ireland's vulnerable, out of work and poor have again been punished by the government in its latest round of harsh cuts to social welfare rent supplements. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday May 17, 2013 - 19:07 by Joe Mc
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From Justice Minister Alan Shatter's statement on mortgage default and repossessions ,Dec 2012 "All mortgages contain remedies that may be exercised by lending institutions in cases of mortgage default. Repossession in the event of such default is, therefore, an existing contractual right. In a well-known 2011 case (Start Mortgages), the High Court found that enactment of reforming legislation in 2009 may have had the unintended consequence in certain cases of restricting lending institutions from asserting their repossession rights. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / housing Wednesday July 11, 2012 - 14:37 by lefty
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Cutting rent supplement has allowed the FG/Labour government to continue to make large cuts to the social welfare budget whilst claiming not to be touching "basic social welfare rates". The reality is that because it is left to tenants to negotiate with their landlords for a rent reduction, rather than such negotiations being undertaken by the department itself, this is rather like David negotiating with goliath and the tenant inevitably has to pay the not inconsiderable difference out of their already reduced social welfare payment. ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / housing Friday December 16, 2011 - 23:03 by John O'Neill
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There are over 600 ghost estates in Ireland. This equates to nearly 20.000 properties which are incomplete or empty. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Monday December 14, 2009 - 00:26 by kraaker
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A pamflet about the new anit-squat law and what is expected to happen when it is passed. PDF file attached. ... read full story / add a comment 
While the rest of us are coming to terms with a deepening recession, growing house repossessions, stagnation in rises and steep rise in the cost of living. In the face of a so-called downturn in the housing market and credit crunch, the wealthy in the form of parasitic property developers and speculators expect to be bailed out by the Government for their calculated era in borrowing too much from Banks and leading to first time buyers ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday January 18, 2008 - 15:41 by as do many other small builders
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I'm sitting here in a wee village with row upon row of empty houses in sight. The rumour is less than 10% have sold. They're building even more. If I was them buildermen I'd give up and go home or take them diggers and go digging for gold in the mountains. The shit is hitting the fans BIGTIME. They'll try to paper over the cracks until after the EU constitution referendum but I don't think they'll succeed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Friday April 20, 2007 - 12:21 by the great excluded
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Fianna Fail plan to renage on the promise to sell local Authority flats to long term residents at a reasonable price ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Sunday November 19, 2006 - 04:10 by Hank
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Refusing rent allowance is discrimination. Media carrying the statement "rent allowance not accepted" are enabling discrimination. How to respond? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / housing Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 13:22 by The Unwelcome Guest
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Low Yields turn off Irish Property Investors November 13, 2006 A new survey shows that the majority of investors in the buy-to-let market do not plan to purchase another property in the next year. The survey was commissioned by EBS and Gunne Residential. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Sunday September 03, 2006 - 19:30 by Michael Scølardt
The acquisition of Ungdomshuset was part of a large and radical squatting movement that challenged property rights and developed a vibrant culture based around these squatted houses. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Wednesday June 21, 2006 - 13:20 by Mark G
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The Homeless agency last month claimed that homeless figures had dropped by a fifth in Dublin last year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Thursday April 20, 2006 - 20:15 by John Williams
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Asks if there is transparencey in the way Voluntary Housing Projects are run ... read full story / add a comment 
national / housing Thursday October 06, 2005 - 10:40 by Brian Jones
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Jake Tate (age 6) has a dream. ... read full story / add a comment |
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