“It’s a lovely system. They thought of everything. You feel so secure here and cared for.”

Around 50 people, calling themselves 'House the Irish First' have been protesting at the site on Ladyswell Road in Mulhuddart since mid January

The Government has issued a lengthy rebuttal to the United Nations in response to criticism of the country's housing policies earlier this year.

In the last few days, more than 60 representatives from various voluntary and civic organisations met at Cork City Hall to discuss how the revolutionary period in Cork city and county might be marked over the coming years.

The core group of residents of the Leeside apartments in Cork city, who spearheaded a two-year campaign against their eviction, also said they felt abandoned by the government at the height of their campaign.

The Housing Minister Simon Coveney is denying that two new emergency hostels are being provided for Dublin as a result of the Home Sweet Home Campaign.

Plans to turn former convent buildings into social housing have been thrown a lifeline after the Department of the Environment agreed to fund a feasibility study.

Clúid’s housing development may be a model for others, writes Noel Baker.

The Government could save €224m a year in the cost of caring for older people by improving home-based services and resourcing properly sheltered housing, a new study shows.

People on the housing waiting list in County Cork may get a boost if the local authority is successful with its plea to the National Housing Agency (NHA) to instruct Nama to allocate vacant homes.

Only five mortgage-to-rent arrangements to assist distressed borrowers have been completed by the country’s main banks since it was set up two and a half years ago.

The Government’s much vaunted mortgage-to-rent scheme to aid distressed home owners is in crisis as Ireland’s four main lending institutions say it is all but unworkable.

Social housing organisations yesterday said the fact that 3,500 local authority dwellings are lying empty for more than a month around the country was “a huge waste”.

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.

A voluntary organisation is set to unveil plans to convert a former convent into sheltered housing which will help fill a void in providing accommodation for older couples and single people.

A €1.5m centre for the homeless is to be provided in a Co Kerry town, with construction work expected to start in the next two months.

Addiction services for almost 1,000 people will be “set back 10 years” by major cuts imposed yesterday.

Jim O’Sullivan (Letters, Jul 13) raises a very important point in relation to the recently launched Mortgage to Rent scheme.

An independent regulator for social housing could be in place within six months, it was yesterday claimed as a study showed increased private financing of social housing schemes could take thousands off waiting lists.

THE bursting of the property bubble may benefit some of the poorer members of society, as apartments built in anticipation of the boom years continuing are sold to social housing projects to cover debts.

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.

THERE’S scarcely a town or village in the country, never mind a city, without a so-called ‘problem estate’ in which houses have fallen into disrepair and the overall appearance is shabby and depressed.

OPENING officially next Tuesday is a new social housing scheme by Clúid.

CORK County Council has granted a number of significant planning permissions, including an extension to the Rochestown Park Hotel, which will make it the second largest hotel in Munster.