Our rental market needs to be regulated

Rent regulation ought to be introduced to our housing market without delay. Here are seven good reasons why...

Safe as houses: Minister Alan Kelly

T here has been considerable publicity in recent months concerning the proposal by the Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly to try to secure “rent certainty” for tenants and landlords in the private rented sector.

The government’s own advisory body, the National Economic and Social Council, has recently advised the government to introduce a system of “rent regulation” (which would achieve “rent certainty”) in association with actions to increase housing supply and security ...