- 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…

