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Home : why public housing is the answer / Eoin Ó Broin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newbridge : Merrion Press, 2019Description: xix, 283 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1785372653
  • 9781785372650
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.585 OBR 23
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Why is our housing system so dysfunctional? Why can it not meet social and affordable housing needs? Home examines the structural causes of our housing emergency, provides a detailed critique of government housing policy from the 1980s to the present, and outlines a comprehensive, practical, and radical alternative that would meet the housing needs of the many, not just the few. For three decades, Government policy has been marked by an under supply of social housing and an over-reliance on the private market to meet housing needs. The result is a dysfunctional housing system that is leaving more and more people unable to access appropriate, secure and affordable homes. The answer lies in establishing a Constitutional right to housing, large scale investment in a new model of public housing to meet social and affordable housing need, real reform of the private rental sector, and regulation of private finance, development, and land.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
  • Deficiencies and Terminology (p. xiv)
  • Preface (p. xv)
  • Overture
  • Inadequate Language (p. 1)
  • Real People (p. 5)
  • A Dysfunctional System (p. 11)
  • Movement 1 (p. 14)
  • Modern Housing (p. 14)
  • Land Reform and Rural Housing (p. 16)
  • Urban Housing (p. 18)
  • Free State - The First Decade (p. 22)
  • New Government, Similar Policy (p. 27)
  • A Reforming Coalition (p. 32)
  • Social Housing's High Point (p. 38)
  • Conclusion (p. 42)
  • Movement 2 The State Walks Away (p. 47)
  • Recession and Retrenchment (p. 47)
  • Reduction and Residualisation (p. 49)
  • The End of Asset-Based Welfare (p. 52)
  • Letting Private Finance In (p. 53)
  • A New Consensus (p. 57)
  • House Prices Explode (p. 65)
  • Ignoring Good Advice (p. 70)
  • The Housing Bubble Bursts (p. 81)
  • Social Housing Strategy 2020 (p. 87)
  • The Dáil Housing and Homeless Committee (p. 93)
  • New Minister, New Department, New Plan (p. 99)
  • Minister Coveney's Record - July 2016 to June 2017 (p. 107)
  • Minister Murphy's Record - June 2017 to December 2018 (p. 117)
  • Conclusion (p. 136)
  • Movement 3 The Return of the State? (p. 143)
  • Taking a Step Back (p. 143)
  • A Right to Housing (p. 149)
  • Why Public Housing is the Answer (p. 159)
  • Reforming the Private Rental Sector (p. 182)
  • Regulating the Private Purchase Sector (p. 194)
  • Building Communities, Not Just Homes (p. 202)
  • Improving Building Control and Consumer Protection (p. 208)
  • Planning for the Future (p. 215)
  • Managing Land for the Common Good (p. 220)
  • Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change (p. 226)
  • Ending Housing inequality (p. 231)
  • Conclusion (p. 238)
  • Coda
  • It's Time to Raise the Roof (p. 240)
  • Nye Bevan's Vision (p. 246)
  • Hatert Tower (p. 251)
  • The Promise of the Democratic Programme (p. 252)
  • Endnotes (p. 255)
  • Bibliography (p. 264)
  • Index (p. 268)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Eoin Broin is a TD for Dublin Mid-West and Sinn Fin's spokesperson on Housing, Planning and Local Government. He is author of Matxinada, Basque Nationalism and Radical Basque Youth Movements (2003) and Sinn Fin and the Politics of Left Republicanism (2009).

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