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
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
AHBs, cost rental and interest rates
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
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
Shrink the PRS - Part I, Part II
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
Do tenancy regulations effect supply?
Rent regulation
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
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
The PRS and housing inequality - Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV