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- Aug 18, 2026
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Help to Buy scheme is a money pit that benefits higher earners (opens the original)
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Although still weeks away, pressure is already being applied for more or extended measures to be introduced in Budget 2027 to help households buy homes and the property industry build and sell them more profitably. Stamp duty is, as always, in the crosshairs. The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers wants the purchase of second-hand homes by first-time buyers exempt from this tax. In April, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said Government would look at measures to âalleviate the pressure
Lorcan Sirr: What would happen if Ireland designed housing with the needs of women in mind? (opens the original)
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Gender is probably the most unnoticed aspect of housing in Ireland. Historically, and not just in Ireland, there has been very little attention paid to the needs of women in the planning and construction of housing and neighbourhoods. The reality is that the built environment is designed by men, for men: the mobility, safety and physiological needs of the heteronormative, middle-income, younger, able-bodied and healthy man. The issues facing people with a disability or whose mobility is impaired
Lorcan Sirr: What Vienna and Marino can teach Ireland about making housing affordable (opens the original)
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Cost rental is a form of intermediate housing introduced for households who earn too much to be eligible for social housing, but not enough to afford private rents. The Government wants to build 2,000 cost-rental units a year. It is used across Europe, most famously in Austria. In the 1920s, Dublin Corporation started building houses at scale for the working classes. These would be let at âeconomic rentsâ, meaning one that met all the costs of construction, maintenance and corporation loan r
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