NOT BUILDING houses didn’t do it. Spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of taxpayer’s money in HAP payments to landlords and vulture funds instead of building social housing didn’t do it. Massaging housing and homeless figures didn’t do it. Could the answer to saving Eoghan Murphy’s political career come in the guise of just changing… Read more »
MINISTER For Health Simon Harris and Minister For Housing Eoghan Murphy are said to be skipping around Leinster House in jubilation today, after seemingly cracking both of their troublesome, scandal-ridden briefs with one simple brainwave. Murphy, facing down the barrel of a vote of no confidence due to the ever-escalating housing crisis, assembled his fellow… Read more »
DUBLIN landlord Damian Phelan is to take a long, hard look at himself and his business acumen, after the latest Daft.ie survey showed that he is charging way under the average monthly rent of €2,000 for his North Dublin property. Phelan, who has let out his 3-bedroom rental property to the same family for over… Read more »
HOMELESS? In the market for a city-centre location that would be the envy of any apartment-seeker if it had walls, a door, warmth, comfort or security? Well, WWN Property may have just the pad for you. Located just off the city’s bustling St. Stephen’s Green area, this stunning one-bedroom doorway would suit any single homeless… Read more »
THE latest figures from a MyHome.ie survey have shown that while house prices in Dublin have begun to fall slightly, the cheapest properties in the country are still to be found in Longford, where a 3-bedroom semi-detached house is a third of the price compared to the same house in the capital. But if you… Read more »
THE country’s largest property website Daft.ie has been ordered by the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHREC) to block discriminatory advertising terms from appearing on its website. The IHREC said it undertook a review of the website and identified a number of adverts it believed discriminated on housing, detailing the full list of banned phrases below: No… Read more »
IN A LANDMARK day property developers are celebrating the news that Dublin City Council and An Bord Pleanála have finally seen sense and stood aside as a sensible solution to Dublin and Ireland’s housing crisis has been found in the shape of a return to Victorian era slums. Developers, who had recently lobbied government and… Read more »
FOLLOWING the decision to give the go-ahead for a 208-bedroom co-living scheme in Dún Laoghaire in Dublin after developers made the massive concession to ensure every person has their own kitchenette, WWN sought to make a better effort at understanding why co-living schemes are being heralded as such a great step forward by politicians and… Read more »
WITH the mass exodus of culchies from the netherworld known as ‘not Dublin’ to Dublin fully underway, the Government has come out to advise college students coming to the capital to not rule out homelessness as a viable option going forward. Trialed and tested on over 10,000 low earning citizens since 2011, Fine Gael detailed… Read more »
IT’S a condition that effects 7 in 10 Irish people living in urban areas and a stunning 11 out of 10 adults living in rural Ireland; today, we’ll be taking a look at Plannophobia, the incurable and irrational need to object to planning permission notices without provocation or cause. “I first started objecting to PP… Read more »