Why Government Housing Policy is Inflating House Prices and Rents, with Mel Renolds This Reboot Republic talks to Architect and housing analyst, Mel Reynolds, about the current state of the Irish housing market, what will happen with prices and rents, why economists get it wrong with arguments around increased supply leading to reduced house prices. Mel analyses the Housing for […]
This Reboot Republic Podcast is a special podcast discussing the recent report “Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland”, published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) which outlines that lone parents and their children account for 53 per cent of all homeless families, and are much more likely to experience poor housing […]
Fianna Fáil TD, Paul McAuliffe, joined us to discuss his party’s plan: Housing For All. We talk about the right to housing that is in and isn’t in the plan, the lack of curbs on investor funds, the positives of the plan and we ask if it is a missed opportunity. We also discuss the blockers within government, Fine Gael […]
This Reboot Republic special is the fifth panel of analysis of the Government’s newly launched Housing for All Plan. It looks at the key parts of the plan in relation to affordable homes delivery, policy and supply, and the Traveller Accommodation Crisis . In this Panel 5 we are joined by Dr Lorcan Sirr of TUD, Hugh Brennan of the […]
This Reboot Republic special is the 3rd panel of the analysis of the Government’s newly launched Housing for All Plan. It looks at the key parts of the plan in relation to design and building standards, build to rent and investors, the funding for the plan, and public action and protest planned to advocate for a radical change in housing […]
This Reboot Republic special is the second panel of the analysis of the Government’s newly launched Housing for All Plan. It looks at the key parts of the plan in relation to homelessness, the experience of Generation Rent, real solutions, and hope in taking action for change. In this Panel 2 we are joined by Mike Allen of Focus Ireland, […]
This Reboot Republic special is an analysis of the Government’s newly launched Housing for All Plan. It looks at the key parts of the plan, weaknesses, some positives and what was missing. In this ,Panel 1, we are joined by Cian O Callaghan, TD with the Social Democrats, Orla Hegarty from the UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environment, Laoise […]
This Reboot Republic talks to Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro, an English Ph.D. student in the University of Limerick, co-producer of a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland, and we talk to Gareth Brinn, a Technical Writer based in Limerick and Graduate in Joint Honours (English and Sociology) from […]