A tale of two busts (and a boom): Irish social housing before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Title:

A tale of two busts (and a boom): Irish social housing before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Creator:

Norris, Michelle and Byrne, Michael

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:5bd45ff5-2f53-42c7-a60b-d3dada04fe4f
uuid:5bd45ff5-2f53-42c7-a60b-d3dada04fe4f
doi:10.13060/23362839.2017.4.2.383

Subject:

social housing, housing allowances, and Ireland

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

This article examines the marked decline in Irish social housing’s traditional role as the main source of accommodation for low-income households. We argue that although this policy redirection has become clearly apparent in the context of the Global Financial Crisis; its roots are, in fact, much older. They lie, not in Ireland’s most recent fiscal crisis, but in the last one which occurred between the late 1970s and mid-1980s. Changes made to arrangements for funding social housing during this time effected a long-term contraction in the social housing’s contribution to total housing output which, in turn, precipitated growing reliance on housing allowance subsidised private rented housing to accommodate this group. The post-GFC austerity merely accelerated this long-term trend rather than signalled a new policy direction.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Critical Housing Analysis | 2017 Volume:4 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

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