Collections

Here you can find some of my past posts organised in collections by topic.

Irish General Election 2024

Solving homelessness and the coalition talks (Mike Allen)

The ‘property ladder’ was real winner of #GE24

Ireland's housing politics: hidden consensus?

What are all the parties promising on housing?

Sinn Féin’s plan for social, cost rental and affordable housing

Bonus post: SF's plans for PRS reform

Labour's housing manifesto

Soc Dems promise €1,000 cost rents

Cost Rental Housing

The impact of cost rental: our findings - Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V

Making cost rental affordable

AHBs, cost rental and interest rates

Is cost rental 'in crisis'?

Cost rental housing and the affordability challenge: lessons from Europe - Part I, Part II

Affordability

Is housing in Ireland really unaffordable?

Are we getting housing affordability wrong? - Part I, Part II

ESRI/IHREC on affordability & inequality

Tenant Politics

Tenant politics and corporate landlords

The new tenant politics

Mass evictions - inside the Tathony House eviction

Henry George, Ireland and the tyranny of rent

Expropriation as a radical housing alternative

Private Rental Sector Reform & Regulation

A vision for Ireland’s PRS

Shrink the PRS - Part I, Part II

Housing precarity and the PRS

The landlord exodus

Department of Housing’s review of the PRS

The RTB survey and the future of the PRS

Beautiful PRS, where are you? Reflections on the eviction ban debate

Trends in the US PRS

Supply, finance and the PRS

Do tenancy regulations effect supply?

Threshold on short term lets

Rent regulation

Does rent regulation work?

Rent regulation reconsidered

The impact of RPZs

Assessing the impact of 2% rent caps

Germany’s rent brake and the impact of rent controls

Financialization

8 things we get wrong about financialization

Definancialization of housing, European style

NAMA: notes on a bad bank - Part I, Part II, Part III

Is it wrong to object to BTR?

Institutional investors, housing supply and real alternatives

Institutional investment in Irish housing (Pierce Daly)

Institutional landlords are more likely to evict

Housing Theory & political economy

The meaning of home - Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

Why we need a political economy of housing - Part I, Part II

The political economy of the residential rent relation

Housing systems and electoral politics

What we don’t talk about when we talk about housing crisis

Are rental markets competitive?

2021: The end of neoliberal housing politics in Ireland?

Inequality

What is housing inequality?

The PRS and housing inequality - Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV