The number of rental properties in some parts of Dublin has spiked by as much as 64% due to knock-on effects of the coronavirus crisis.

The fund for assisting students is worth €14m a year, and aims to help people who have financial difficulties while in college.

People in private rented accommodation and single-parent households are the most vulnerable to crippling debt, according to a report.

Students at another university in Ireland have joined the protests demanding the reversal of rent increases in on-campus accommodation.

Students camping out day and night in protest at proposed incoming rent hikes at accommodation owned by their university believe they will remain in their tents on-campus for at least another week.

Residents of Cork's newest private student accommodation will pay rents of around €1,000 a month.

They say the increases are locking young people out of access to higher education and must be reversed immediately.

Students protesting a proposed rent hike at University College Cork (UCC) occupied the Quad today by pitching several tents and vowing to stay put until the policy is reversed.

The country’s largest private housing landlord, Ires Reit, said it is expecting political uncertainty over rent controls following the general election to last for a number of months, while the supply of new housing remains “constrained”.

Amidst a series of rent hikes at universities across the country, students at University College Dublin (UCD) staged a sit-in in protest of what they described as the “commercialisation” of third-level education.

Up to 100 students at UCD have held a protest over prospective rent hikes on the college campus.

The price of housing at the south Dublin university is to rise by 4% each year over the next three years.

From September, a single room at the Goldcrest student accommodation will cost €750 a month after the cost was increased by 4% - the maximum allowed in a rent-pressure zone.

Universities are raising rents for on-campus accommodation this September.

Rent freeze proposals will likely reduce the supply of houses by discouraging investors from entering the private rented market, according to a Goodbody report.

The projections come as the issues of housing and homelessness continue to be hotly debated topics in the election campaign.

An ongoing quest for secure tenure and fair rents. Demands to build more and better housing. Social deprivation and mental health problems.

The proposal to raise the rent by €3 a week across the board was passed in November last year.

Ireland saw the third largest fall in house prices in the EU between 2007 and autumn 2019.

The property in The Lough area was posted online on Wednesday in a classified advertisement site, run by a foreign registered company.

Many people are sleeping rough and were it not for the Cork Simon Community and St Vincent de Paul many more would be left on our streets. Exorbitant rents for private accommodation and planning regulations are putting many more families on the poverty line.

More than 4,600 properties are currently listed for short-term lets in Dublin City centre.

The Dáil has passed a bill calling for an immediate rent freeze.

Government-backed rent calming measures have "failed" in recent years while tenants have seen rates spiral, according to Sinn Féin.

Fianna Fáil will back a Sinn Féin bill calling for an immediate rent freeze.

The Government is set to oppose Sinn Féin's bill on introducing a State-wide rent freeze, even though Fianna Fáil looks set to support it.

The Taoiseach has dismissed opposition calls to introduce a rent freeze despite renters paying significantly higher amounts than at the height of the boom.

Renters in Ireland are paying €400 more each month than they did at the height of the Celtic Tiger.

For the cheapest available room, a standard en suite, students would be shelling out €228 per week or €3,876 for a 17-week term starting in January 2020.

Local authorities have told the Minister for Housing that they will need more than €8 million to enforce new laws on short-term lettings.

Dublin City Council is to up the ante in its bid to clamp down on illegal short-term lets in the city.

Landlords are continuing to flout new laws that restrict the renting out of properties on a short-term basis.