Housing

Homelessness and the new Housing Plan: Encouraging Developments

Homelessness

Homelessness remains one of the most urgent and visible consequences of Ireland’s housing crisis. Families, children, young people and single adults continue to enter homelessness at record levels,…

Does the New Housing Plan Match the Scale of the Challenge?

Housing Plan

“A home is where people build and plan their lives, raise their families, and connect with their communities.” With this line, the Government introduces Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–…

Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–2030: What's in the Plan?

Delivering Homes, Building Communities

Ireland’s new housing plan, Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–2030, is the Government’s latest attempt to respond to the severe pressures facing the housing system. Homelessness,…

Future Forty - a fiscal and economic outlook to 2065

Future Forty

'Future Forty - A Fiscal and Economic Outlook to 2065' has been published by the Department of Finance and it examines the long-term impacts of global megatrends and other structural shifts and their…

A Place to Age Well: Ireland’s Housing Challenge and Opportunity

Lack of inclusive housing

Population projections indicate that Ireland’s population could reach 6.5 million by 2057 under a moderate scenario based on the 2022 Census. Within this expansion, a key demographic trend will be…

Homelessness: A Deepening Emergency

Homeless families

Homelessness is becoming normalised. Each month brings a new record high in homelessness figures. The latest data indicate that 15,915 people, including almost 5,000 children, accessed emergency…

Policies for Ageing Well at Home in Ireland: Health and Wellbeing 2025

Policies for Ageing Well at Home in Ireland 2025

As society undergoes significant transformations, such as demographic shifts, how we navigate these changes is crucial. ALONE and Social Justice Ireland believe that all individuals should…

Time for Government to put fairness first and deliver positive change

wellbeing

In the latest edition of Social Justice Ireland’s national social monitor, 'Putting Fairness First', outlines policies and proposals that would support Government in putting fairness at the…

National Social Monitor - Putting Fairness First: Delivering the Programme for Government

NSM 2025 May cover

The Programme for Government (PfG)- Securing Our Future, published in January 2025, outlines a series of commitments made by Government across a range of policy areas. Social Justice Ireland…

Social Justice Ireland's Submission to the National Housing Plan 2025-2030

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Social Justice Ireland welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage's National Housing Plan 2025-2030.…