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State to make emergency accommodation costs available to worst-hit mica families

Department of Housing to give homeowners in worst situations access to €15k, following Business Post report on families in houses severely damaged by defective blocks

Mica: Expert group warns more funding needed to better regulate concrete products

New audit published by the government, which has been delayed by months, says government needs to spend more on overseeing quarries

Brian Keegan: Tax breaks for developers are the elephant in the room

Nobody wants to be seen to profit from the housing crisis, but everyone loses out if we insist on retaining the tax status quo

In dispute: Will a new law fix Ireland’s planning system?

The government is bringing in a bill designed to limit judicial reviews on large developments. But some experts argue the problems lie elsewhere and that it is wrong to blame the backlog of housing and other projects on such reviews

Mica: Council seeks meeting with Minister as pressure grows over worst-impacted homes

Donegal County Council has written to Darragh O’Brien, the Housing Minister, about the ‘seriousness’ of the situation for some homeowners in homes severely damaged by defective concrete blocks

Hundreds of mica homeowners forced to wait until next year for redress grant eligibility

Donegal County Council tells 400 impacted homeowners application for redress won’t be processed until January

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Judicial review process in clear need of a complete overhaul

The current expensive and sluggish planning laws allow critical infrastructure and housing developments to be held up for years

Concerns raised over Glenveagh nominees to Kildare council planning committees

Nomination of two executives of builder with several projects in county could create conflict of interest, warn councillors

John Walsh: Housing crisis is poised to deepen as supply of funding is increasingly constrained

With public sector debt at €240 billion, private sector funding limited, developers facing eroding profits and institutional investment on the wane, where is the money for building new homes going to come from?

Moving on: Is our property pipeline in jeopardy?

The retreat of institutional investors from the Irish property market – due to a combination of issues such as project viability concerns and rising bond yields – has significant implications for government housing targets

‘There's days I phone my daughter and cry’: Worst mica-hit families face an unsafe winter

The government has been warned that 10 families in homes built by hazardous blocks need to move for their safety. But can anything be done to get them into emergency accommodation?

New rent prices in Dublin rise above average of €2,000 a month

Price inflation in the capital was at almost 9 per cent over the last year

Delivery of almost 9,000 new homes in Dublin at risk if infrastructure not built

Local government auditor warns failure to secure development contributions could adversely impact landmark project at Cherrywood

‘Worse, and worse again’ - Unprecedented spike in advertised rent prices

Newly listed rents hit €1,688 in the third quarter of 2022

Local anger over affordable housing body buying entire estate

Respond bought all 69 houses estate in Cork suburb for social housing, but residents’ association says action is ‘locking out’ individual buyers

Universities warned state over inflation and planning issues amid student housing shortage

Several universities told the government their attempts to create new beds were being disrupted by cost pressures or issues with planning permission

State aims to create 3,000 beds for Ukrainian refugees by refurbishing vacant buildings

Government is planning to renovate buildings in Wicklow, Waterford, Cork and Meath as part of a more medium-term strategy to house people fleeing Russia’s war

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Billions in corporate tax this year a once-off, Finance warns; Number of new house builds down 14%

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Number of new house builds falls by 14 per cent over the last year

Details of slowdown come as it was also revealed that the Department of Housing spent €452m less than forecast on capital projects, such as housebuilding, up to the end of October

Nimbys: Serial housing objectors or scapegoats?

Developers and even the Taoiseach have singled out not-in-my-back-yard building objectors as the reason for the slow delivery of homes amid a housing crisis, but the numbers of houses and apartments being held up by legal objections don’t necessarily back up their argument