Forgotten debtors?

Ireland’s housing market is in crisis, with rents spiralling, tight supply and house prices moving upwards.

But behind the story of that crisis, there’s another crisis that hasn’t gone away: mortgage arrears.

For many of the tens of thousands of families living with mortgage arrears, there’s still no solution.

Figures released by the Central Bank last month pointed to the continued decline in the number of cases of mortgage arrears. However, there are ...