Cork City Council has doubled the number of property inspectors on its books as it aims to improve its rate of inspection of private rented dwellings.

The national average time taken to fill a vacant property was 27.75 weeks in 2018.

The tragic case of Timmy Hourihane, the homeless man who was beaten to death in Cork at the weekend, demonstrates the complexity of the homelessness crisis, the Taoiseach said.

Ambitious housing plans are being prepared for a former asylum building on the northside of Cork city which has been boarded up since it was gutted in a suspected arson attack just over two years ago.

A 1960s former office block in one of Cork’s most desirable residential areas is to undergo a €10m conversion into a local authority downsizing housing project.

Tenants who had been facing mass eviction from a Cork city apartment block by a vulture fund have been saved from possible homelessness thanks to a multi-million social housing property deal.

Plans to convert a 1960s office block in one of Cork's most desirable residential areas into a €10m social housing scheme have been unveiled.

A €30m affordable housing project on public land on Cork’s northside has been granted planning permission.

Internal correspondence shows confusion over the categorising of people living in emergency accommodation in five areas, and how in some cases incorrect tallies of homeless people were down to miscalculations and omissions.

Plans for a €30m sheltered and affordable housing apartment complex close to Cork city centre have been unveiled.

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.

Building work on a €16m social housing scheme — one of the largest in the country — is finally under way in Cork City, more than a decade after flats on the site were demolished.

A young woman pregnant with her first child says she and her husband have been left with no option but to live in their car after a court order for the removal of their caravan from council land on the southside of Cork city.

Cork’s city councillors have cleared the way for the construction of up to 30 homes on a former car showroom site in Cork’s western suburbs.

The way has finally been cleared for the construction of 147 social and affordable homes on Cork’s northside on county land earmarked for transfer to the city.

A sheltered housing scheme for downsizing over-60s was among four social housing projects approved for Cork City last night.

Limerick’s troubled regeneration plan has left a trail of disillusioned and angry families in its wake.

ONE of Limerick’s regeneration areas has received a major sporting boost following the signing of contracts for the development of a €355,000 all-weather pitch in Kings Island.

A LOCAL authority is offering fully furnished and fully equipped apartments in Ireland’s longest building to entice people in to a multi-million euro house downsizing scheme.