Publications

This report evaluates the second phase of the ‘Housing with Support’ development in Inchicore. Housing with Support is a specialised housing option, primarily for older people, that falls between living independently in the community and living in a nursing home or other form of long-term care. This evaluation examines the successes and barriers in this phase, the reasons why they happened, and the solutions involved. It provides a useful tool in understanding the complex nature of this project and how the partnership process between stakeholders worked.

This study is the third in the Housing Agency series National Study of Housing Experiences, Attitudes and Aspirations in Ireland.

The Housing Options document is a guide to the housing options that are available through local authorities. It provides information on social housing eligibility, how to apply for social housing support, assessment and social housing provisions. 

The document is an initial source of information. All local authorities have websites where additional and more detailed information can be found on all the options contained in this document.

This toolkit has been developed as a mechanism of capturing and sharing the learning arising from the Dublin City Age Friendly Housing with Support project. The overall aim is to provide a guide, particularly for social housing providers (to include local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHB) interested in developing Housing with Support projects for older people. It may also be useful to private developers interested in developing this type of housing.

It incorporates learnings from phase one and phase two of the Housing with Supports project.

The Housing Agency Housing Insight Series aims to disseminate good practice in housing and innovative solutions among housing practitioners in Ireland. Issues are published quarterly and provide a case study of effective, practical implementation of a piece of housing policy or practice. The resulting short paper is intended to provide a knowledge base and provide ideas to others in the sector, building the overall capacity of the sector. The Housing Agency sources case-studies from our staff, The Housing Agency panels, housing practitioners and stakeholders.

On Thursday 23rd June, The Housing Agency was asked to attend the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing to discuss  the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022. The Housing Agency's CEO, Bob Jordan was joined by Peadar Espey, The Housing Agency’s Programme Manager for the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme for the committee session. 

The Housing Agency Housing Insight Series aims to disseminate good practice in housing and innovative solutions among housing practitioners in Ireland. Issues are published quarterly and provide a case study of effective, practical implementation of a piece of housing policy or practice. The resulting short paper is intended to provide a knowledge base and provide ideas to others in the sector, building the overall capacity of the sector. The Housing Agency sources case-studies from our staff, The Housing Agency panels, housing practioners and stakeholders.

The Housed Homeless: The role of housing in supporting victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

On Tuesday 22nd March, the Housing Agency was asked to attend the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing to discuss our role in the funding & financing of Social & Affordable Housing. In particular, the Housing Agency discussed its direct roles in funding and financing - providing Cost Rental Equity Loans (CREL) to Approved Housing Bodies and managing the Housing Agency's Acquisition Fund.

A report being launched today (31st March), commissioned by the Housing Agency and the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) and carried out by Professor Michelle Norris and Dr.