Three years to house everyone: a working financing model
A working financial model for ending Irish modern homelessness in approximately three years: capital cost, financing terms, the transition profile, and the comparison with continuing …
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Tagged: Homelessness
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The arithmetic of not building
Around €900 million flowed from the Irish State to private emergency-accommodation providers and HAP landlords in 2024, producing no permanent public asset. The same money …
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Irish Minister Who Thinks the Problem Is the Coverage
Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, went on Limerick's Live 95 today and said he would ask Coimisiún na Meán — Ireland's …
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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What the Surplus Hides
On paper, Ireland is the only Western European country currently building government wealth at scale rather than running it down. By the standard measures, the …
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The Acceptance
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a conversation when everyone in the room knows the same thing and nobody is willing …
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The Ladder They Pulled Up
Ireland's government wants more professional landlords. Ireland's young people can't find jobs. These are not two stories. They are one policy, viewed from opposite ends …
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Two Irelands in the Data
Ireland is richer, better educated, better connected, and living longer than at any point in its history. It is also less likely to own a …
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Open for Business
Ireland's housing crisis is not a failure of policy. It is the result of policy — decades of decisions made by identifiable people, in identifiable …
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