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Why Public Housing is the Answer

Eoin O Broin (Autor)

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2019
272 Seiten
Merrion Press (Verlag)
978-1-78537-267-4 (ISBN)

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Thousands are homeless, tens of thousands are languishing on social housing waiting lists, even more are unable to afford to rent or buy. Why is our housing system so dysfunctional? Why can it not meet social and affordable housing needs? Home: Why Public Housing is the Answer 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 undersupply of social housing and an over-reliance on the private market to meet housing needs. Housing has become a commodity, not a public good. The result is a dysfunctional housing system that is leaving more and more people unable to access appropriate, secure and affordable homes. The answer, as argued in this transformative new book, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.5.2019
• Verlagsort: Kildare
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Baurecht (privat)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Affordable Housing • Alan Kelly • Aneurin Bevan • Architecture • asylum seekers • building industry • Building practices • Building Standards • Celtic tiger • Central Bank • climate change • Construction • Council housing • CSO • Department of Housing • Deregulation • Direct provision • Dublin • Dublin tenements • Eoghan Murphy • Equality Commission • European Union • evictions • Fianna Fáil • financial crash • Fine Gael • Help to Buy Scheme • Homelessness • Homeownership • Housing Act • Housing crisis • Housing design • Housing Market • Housing rights • Human Rights Ireland • Ireland • Irish Constitution • Irish Current Affairs • Irish government • Irish Left Republicanism • Irish travellers • Labour Party • Land Act • Land League • Landlords • Leo Varadkar • Local Authorities • Mahon Tribunal • Manifesto • Marginalisation • marginalization • Michelle Norris • Mortgages • Municipal housing • Nama • National Economic and Social Council • Neoliberalism • nesc • not-for-profit • Nye Bevan • Oireachtas • Peter McVerry • Plan for Social Housing • planning reform • Policy • private sector • property • property boom • property ladder • Property Market • Public housing • Raise the Roof • Rebuilding Ireland • Rental Accommodation Scheme • rental market • rental sector • Residential Tenancies Board • Simon Coveney • Sinn Féin • Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism • Social Housing • Take Back the City • Threshold • Traveller community
• ISBN-10: 1-78537-267-X / 178537267X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78537-267-4 / 9781785372674