Renters Research Support Programme Projects

Overview:
This research looks at ‘Generation Rent’ and housing precarity. Housing precarity is understood as a state of uncertainty arising from the experience of insecure, unaffordable, poor quality and inaccessible housing.

As part of the work a Housing Precarity Index (HPI) has been developed and applied to data on private renters in Ireland, using objective and subjective indicators from the EU-Survey on Incomes and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)  

The HPI is enabling an assessment of current conditions for renters, but also identifies the key drivers of housing precarity and assesses how such precarities might contribute to further declining living standards among renters into the future.

Outputs: 

• Generation Rent and Housing Precarity in 'Post Crisis' Ireland (Housing Studies, 2021) (Open Access Journal Article)
• Housing, place and populism: Towards a research agenda (Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2021) (Open Access Journal Article)
• Responding to Housing Precarity: the coping strategies of Generation Rent (Housing Studies, 2022) (Open Access Journal Article)
• RC21 Conference Sensing the City - Place, People, Power 
• Generation Rent and Housing Precarity in Ireland Final Report