Budget 2023 must address Ireland’s poor performance on delivering basic infrastructure. At an international level, Ireland is ranked 41st out of 63 countries for basic infrastructure according to the…
Access to adequate housing is a fundamental human right. Without proper shelter it is virtually impossible to participate fully in society, to live a life with dignity, or to protect ones health and…
Social Justice Ireland welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the consultation process on a referendum on a Right to Housing. We believe strongly in the importance of developing a…
Government must do more to protect vulnerable households against the impact of mortgage rate increases. One in twenty people with a mortgage were living in poverty in 2021. When mortgage interest is…
In October 2020, the Irish Government published its first paper on the introduction of a Wellbeing Framework and, since then, has been working on what should be included to measure how well Ireland…
Locked Out of the Market is a quarterly report published by the Simon Communities of Ireland based on a snapshot survey conducted over three consecutive days. This latest version (the 26th in the…
Housing affordability continues to present a serious issue in Ireland. Prospective homeowners have faced increases in house prices of 15.2 per cent in the year to March 2022; asking rents advertised…
In this edition of Housing Costs and Poverty 2022, we take a look at this data for 2021, how mortgage interest and rent payments impact on the poverty rate of various household types most closely…
The overall poverty rate in Ireland increases from 11.6 per cent before housing costs are included to 19 per cent after housing costs are counted – an increase of almost 371,000 people. This means…
The latest data from the CSO on Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Properties by Local Electoral Area indicate that more than one in five, 20.9 per cent, of all tenancies registered with the…
