- Read more: INDICATE: Ireland National Policy Brief
The Irish Green Building Council has published INDICATE: Ireland National Policy Brief. The authors note that “the objective of this policy brief is to provide useful information on the current status of whole-life carbon assessments in the context of the Irish built environment, to summarise the development of a method for carrying out assessments and…
- Read more: Housing with Support – Literature Review
ALONE has published a brief literature review that focuses on the effectiveness of housing with support schemes. The review highlights the benefits of housing with support, such as improving quality of life, maintaining independence, enhancing health, and reducing loneliness. It also shows positive impacts on healthcare, including fewer GP visits, shorter hospital stays, and fewer…
- Read more: Economic policy issues in the Irish housing market
The Central Bank of Ireland has published: “Economic Policy Issues in the Irish Housing Market”. The article highlights the importance of policy interventions that aim to close the gap between affordability and viability, through reducing the cost of delivering housing instead of enabling higher prices, which are ultimately borne by new households. The report is…
- Read more: Boosting Ireland’s Housing Supply: Modern Methods of Construction
This report investigates the potential of modern methods of construction (MMC) to significantly boost housing supply. It highlights progress under the MMC roadmap, an important and ambitious State policy designed to achieve greater adoption of MMC, which is of a high quality and complies with Building Regulations, in public housing delivery and in the housing…
- Read more: Rebuilding Local Authority housing capacity: a design for an apprenticeship guarantee scheme
Housing is the main social service provided by local government (Callan 2018), yet since 2019 the number of vacant homes owned by local authorities has stood at around 4,400 annually (NAOC 2019-2022). Given the ongoing housing crisis, this situation has often led to adverse media and political commentary (RTE 2023; Irish Daily Mail 2024). This…
- Read more: The State We Are In: TASC Inequality Report 2024
TASC has published “The State We Are In: TASC Inequality Report 2024”. This report has a special focus on education and educational inequality while also covering issues relating to income inequality, poverty and deprivation, the impact of inequality on families and children, the impact of recent interventions to support living standards and the risks around…
- Read more: Ireland’s first European Child Guarantee interim report
The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has published Ireland’s first European Child Guarantee interim report. This report shows the steps Ireland has taken, since the introduction of the Guarantee in 2021, to make sure that children can access the services and supports that they need to have the best possible start in…
- Read more: Access to autonomous housing for beneficiaries of International Protection in Ireland
The Economic and Social Research Institute has published a new report: Access to autonomous housing for beneficiaries of International Protection in Ireland. This EMN Ireland/ ESRI research found that a large number of recognised refugees (called ‘beneficiaries of international protection’ in the report) are struggling to move out of government-provided accommodation into autonomous housing. The…
- Read more: The Report of the Housing Commission
A number of reports prepared by the Housing Commission, including its overall review of Ireland’s housing system, together with a number of reports in relation to the wording of a referendum on housing, have been published. The Report of the Housing Commission is based on over two years of deliberation by the Commission and includes…
- Read more: Housing, Health and Happiness: How Inadequate Housing Shapes Child and Parental Wellbeing
A new report, Housing, Health and Happiness: How Inadequate Housing Shapes Child and Parental Wellbeing, has been published by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and funded by the Housing Agency Research Support Programme. “This report shows that families living in poorer quality housing have lower social and emotional wellbeing. Using data on the…
