The joy of downsizing: 'It’s my little palace'

The Housing for All ‘rightsizing’ approach has been pioneered by Cork City Council through schemes like the award-winning 30-unit Arus Mhuire development in Blackrock

Jim Hourihan at Arus Mhuire, Skehard Road, Blackrock, Cork, after 'rightsizing' last year from a three-bed house in Mayfield. "I’ve no regrets.” Photo: Larry Cummins.

It was a big decision to leave his home of 50 years and move to a small apartment but ‘rightsizer’ Jim Hourihan couldn’t be happier.

“It’s my little palace. If you offered me any other place now, I wouldn’t take it - unless I win the Euromillions. Only then, I might consider it,” he says.