Lima, Valesca (2018) Delivering social housing: an overview of the housing crisis in Dublin. Critical Housing Analysis, 5 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2336-2839

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This paper explores the responses to the housing crisis in Dublin, Ireland, by analysing recent housing policies promoted to prevent family homelessness. I argue that private rental market subsides have played an increasing role in the provision of social housing in Ireland. Instead of policies that facilitate the construction of affordable housing or the direct construction of social housing, current housing policies have addressed the social housing crisis by encouraging and relying excessively on the private market to deliver housing. The housing crisis has challenged governments to increase the social housing supply, but the implementation of a larger plan to deliver social housing has not been effective, as is evidenced by the rapid decline of both private and social housing supply and the increasing number of homeless people in Dublin.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Critical Housing Analysis; social housing; housing crisis; Dublin;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	10432
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2018.5.1.402
Depositing User:	Valesca Lima
Date Deposited:	17 Jan 2019 11:42
Journal or Publication Title:	Critical Housing Analysis
Publisher:	Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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