Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
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Councillors want sight again of who gets social housing in their areas, amid confusion about how lists work
“There is just so much confusion,” says Sarah Lawless, who has been on the housing list for 20 years. “The whole system doesn’t make sense.”
Plans progress for social housing on long, long-vacant site in Dolphins Barn
It’s one of two prominent sites in Dolphins Barn that the Iveagh Trust has been prepping to build out.
Fingal councillors raise rents for tenants in social housing
The council’s draft 2026 budget proposed increasing rents from 12 percent of a tenant’s income to 17 percent – in the end, councillors went with 14.5 percent.
With council rents and private rents both rising, HAP tenants are squeezed from two directions
“I think in some cases it could be more than half their income. I don’t see how the sums will add up.”
Councillors call for integration of social tenants living in apartment complexes – rather than segregation into one block
But Mick Mulhern, the council’s housing manager, says it just isn’t always possible or practical to do that.
Look at converting some social homes in city-centre flats into cost-rentals, says Taoiseach’s group
No decision has been made on whether that will happen, a Dublin City Council spokesperson has said. But it hasn’t been ruled out.
Council details €30m plan to revamp Glovers Court flats, off Aungier Street
The project would retrofit the existing building, and add extensions, to increase the number of homes from 38 to 53.
Council on track to deliver about 2,000 new social homes this year, says housing manager
“It was a slow start, but I think the ship is moving,” said council housing manager, Mick Mulhern, at a housing committee meeting.
Residents of Basin Street flats fear their long-promised redevelopment is now in limbo
Many of the social housing projects paused recently were on vacant sites but this one is different, says a local councillor.
The decay of council housing becomes a photography exhibition
“Homes not Hazards” is set for Tailors’ Hall in the Liberties on 28 June.
As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
No extra money yet for council to roll out actions put forward by Taoiseach’s Taskforce for Dublin
Councillors said that they feel the city was just used as the backdrop for a pre-election PR campaign.