Affordability and access to Irish housing: trends, policy and prospects
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Daithi Downey, 'Affordability and access to Irish housing: trends, policy and prospects', Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton Street, Journal of Irish Urban Studies, Vol.2 (Issue 1), 2003, 2003, 1-23Download Item:
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Abstract:
This paper begins by tracking the emergence of housing affordability as a policy issue,
before reviewing trends in private and social housing output , contrasting the fonunes of the
private and social housing sectors over the recent past. Attention then turns to trends in
house price innation with the key issue of access to housing being considered before an
examination of how new entrants to owner occupation overcome the price barrier of
accessing home ownership. Housing affordability and access to rental housing is then
considered prior to a discussion of the policy responses to affordability issues and the
relationship between housing affordability and social exclusion. The paper concludes with
an argument for a more sophisticated understanding of affordabi lily which encompasses
sustainability and addresses diminished access to housing as an issue of social exclusion
rather than simply the house price issue.
Author: Downey, Daithi
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Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton StreetType of material:
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Journal of Irish Urban StudiesVol.2 (Issue 1), 2003
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