Resident, Aimee O'Riordan, said: “We got no help from the Government. We were on our own, essentially. It took us to come together to explore all alternative options and to just basically be a stone in people's shoes to get this deal over the line."

Radical proposals to fix the broken housing system include creating a Housing Development Bank which would oversee the spending of €16bn to deliver 80,000 low-cost homes.

More than 1,200 local authority homes in Cork city are set for repairs and upgrades after council officials were cleared to apply for an €11m loan.

The unprecedented growth of student accommodation in Cork City over the past two years has raised concerns.

Some 1,200 local authority homes in Cork City have been earmarked for repairs or upgrades, as part of a massive €11m loan-funded scheme.

EIB to provide €490m for construction of facility as health minster says it’s ‘unlikely’ to be named Phoenix.

An €11m loan for council housing repairs in Cork city is on the way and funding for road repairs and homeless services has been increased as city councillors agreed not to increase commercial rates and parking charges.

Bank of Ireland has reduced its fixed rate mortgage offering.

The Government should consider funding an SSIA-type mortgage savings scheme to help young and low-income buyers get on the property ladder, says the Housing Finance Agency says.

The chairwoman of the Housing Finance Agency is warning that the Government’s pending plan for new affordable housing schemes must not leave borrowers broke and in arrears.

The Government should consider funding an SSIA-type mortgage savings scheme to help young and low-income buyers get on the property ladder, the Housing Finance Agency says.

Túath, a voluntary housing association, have delivered 565 social homes in 2016 in collaboration with 21 local authorities throughout the country.

Focus Ireland is finding it impossible to keep pace with the rate of homelessness.

Noel Baker looks at a timeline of events that has led to the Housing Action Plan.

The Housing Finance Agency and the Department of the Environment are reported to be providing funding, our money, to voluntary housing body Túath to purchase 117 homes in Dublin for people on the social housing list.

Almost 120 families will be housed in a development announced yesterday in Dublin, putting a dent in the growing homelessness crisis in the capital.

Deputy Joanna Tuffy claimed that two of the country’s leading homeless charities - Focus Ireland and the Peter McVerry Trust - were not doing enough to tackle the homeless crisis.

In your article ‘Bank loans “best” for homeless charities’ it is stated that I “asserted up to €500 million in funding for social housing made available by the Housing Finance Agency was left unclaimed” (Irish Examiner, August 25).

Instead of finding sustainable solutions to housing and homelessness problems, the focus is on identifying a villain of the piece, now all we’re missing is an inquiry, says Michael Clifford

Two of the country’s leading homeless organisations have revealed it is cheaper for them to borrow from commercial banks than to apply for loans through the Government’s Housing Finance Agency.

The European Investment Bank is to provide a 25-year loan for a social housing programme.

Struggling local authorities had to renegotiate more than €136m worth of loans last year as they worked to cope with boom-time debts.

Labour’s Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan is trying to convince her Cabinet colleagues of the jobs and economic potential that could be created if the Government was to start building social housing again.

Two reports into a multi-billion euro accountancy blunder at the Department of Finance are to be released this morning.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has said the €3.6 billion accounting error which tripped up Kevin Cardiff’s bid to sit on the European Court of Auditors should not be enough to prevent him taking the job.

MEPs have received an unprecedented amount of emails lobbying over the Government’s controversial nominee to a top auditing body in Europe, it was revealed today.

EVIDENCE suggests the Department of Finance ignored repeated requests over the past 15 months from the National Treasury Management Agency to clarify how a €3.6 billion loan should be treated in the national accounts.

The Government’s discovery that it is €3.6bn better off following an accounting blunder will make no difference to the Budget, the Minister for Finance has said.

THE Government was left red-faced yesterday after revealing its debt was actually €3.6 billion lower than thought after it uncovered an “accounting” blunder.

THE Government revealed that Ireland’s debt is €3.6 billion lower than thought, after an “accounting” error was uncovered.

Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness has said he will seek a meeting to discuss the €3.6bn "serious accounting error " confirmed by the Department of Finance today.

The Government has been forced to admit an embarrassing accounting blunder which has found an extra €3.6bn on State books.

NAMA has delivered on its “social dividend” promise by providing social housing in a top-end Dublin development through the Clúid Housing Association.

The charity behind a new approach to social housing to be launched in Dublin later today is hoping its model of buying "NAMA-ed" homes can be replicated across the country.

UP to 10,000 homeowners on affordable housing mortgages will not benefit from the latest cut in interest rates.

THOUSANDS of homeowners on affordable housing mortgages have yet to benefit from a cut in interest rates last month.

THE troubled property and construction sectors were neither rocked nor shocked by the measures announced in Budget 2009.

A SUPPORT group for women involved in prostitution has ruled out organising pickets of other lap dancing clubs following the recent closure of Stringfellow’s in Dublin.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday questioned whether 10,000 affordable houses could be delivered as part of a new national pay deal.