Book Details

Housing Contemporary Ireland

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-4020-5674-1

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This book, the first comprehensive review of housing in Ireland for many years, introduces, in an accessible manner, the key housing developments since the foundation of the State and also reports on the findings of the latest research on the transformation of the sector in the past decade. The issues examined here include: -the impact of the house price boom on wealth and affordability -the urban renewal schemes and private rented housing -the management of social housing -the accommodation of Travellers and homeless people -rural housing policy and politics


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Housing, Housing Markets, Ireland, Social Housing, Sustainability Planning, Transformation, politics, urban design, urban renewal