Housing

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions said that it will “give very serious consideration and attention” to the proposals contained in the Government’s new Housing for All plan. Speaking in response to the publication of the plan, Congress officer Macdara Doyle said: “We are in the midst of the deepest...

The Raise the Roof housing campaign group has backed calls for a Right to Housing to be enshrined in the Constitution, as set out in a new Bill from People before Profit TD, Richard Boyd Barrett, to be debated in the Dail today (June 3). If passed, the Bill would see the holding of a referendum to...

Raise the Roof Campaign Calls for Full Support for New Measures to Assist Student Renters The Raise the Roof housing campaign today (February 25) backed calls from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) for all party support for proposed new legislation to provide greater protection for student...

Major Trade Union & Civil Society Coalition Calls for Radical Transformation of Housing System, with Delivery of 100,000 New Homes, Public Lands Reserved Solely for Public Housing Any new programme for government must commit to a radical transformation of the housing system that would see up to 100...

Achieving the Right to Housing for All in Ireland - General Secretary Patricia King address at Maynooth Housing Conference The Trade Union movement has always maintained a very clear and simple view of housing. We see it as no more or no less than a public good. It is as essential and to the normal...

Congress General Secretary Patricia King has urged the Government to implement a Dail motion on housing, which was passed 12 months ago, and offered solutions to the country's grave housing crisis. She said over 10,000 people, many of them children, are living in emergency accommodation and she...