Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
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Housing
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Council Briefs: Who Controls Iveagh Markets, and Restoring a Buffer Against Homelessness
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their January monthly meeting on Monday.
Council Seeks to Limit What Share of New Homes in Some City Neighbourhoods Can Be Studios and One-Beds
The move is based on research predicting a falling share of one-person households in the Liberties and the north inner-city.
Council Briefs: Safer Communities in Council Housing, and Zoning for Affordable Housing
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their housing committee.
On Dorset Street, Council Pushes Forward with Regeneration of a Long-Neglected Housing Complex
The plans call for the current 113 old homes, many of which are now empty and boarded up, to be replaced with 163 new ones.
Council’s Efforts to Do Something Other than Build Traveller Housing with Mt Anville Road Site Continue
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council decided in 2019 not to build housing for Travellers on the site, saying it planned to sell it. Now it’s back to housing again.
How to Convince Landlords to Spend on Making Rentals More Energy Efficient, When It Won’t Make Them More Money?
It’s a problem the government will have to navigate as it rolls out a promise to introduce minimum BER ratings for private rentals by 2025, “where feasible”.
Council Briefs: Oscar Traynor Road Housing, Choosing a City Centre Tsar, Counting Vacant Homes, and More
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their October monthly meeting, on Monday.
Councillors Consider Whether to Back New Plan for Hundreds of Proposed Homes on Council Land at Oscar Traynor Road
Dublin City Council would sell the site to developer Glenveagh, which would agree to build 853 homes there, which would all be social and affordable, say officials. But what does affordable mean?
Tenants Find They Can’t Take Their Landlords to the RTB Because They Can’t Find Them
Nobody knows how many cases are stymied when neither the tenant nor the Residential Tenancies Board can track down a landlord.
Councils’ Purchases of Houses from Developers for Use as Social Homes Lack Transparency and Oversight, Report Says
It examined deals done between 2016 and 2019 and found that councils generally got a good deal, but that there wasn’t a rigorous, standardised process.
Irish Rail Officials Sceptical of Reports of Imminent Plan to Build Thousands of Homes across Inchicore Site
Freeing up part of the Inchicore Railway Works for housing in seven to 10 years might be possible, though, the internal emails said.
Councillors Weigh Mistrust of Housing Charity against Need to Build Housing, Fast
They must decide whether to give Cabhrú another chance, or have the council redevelop a Phibsboro social-housing complex itself.