Webinar: Launch of 'Homes for Ireland’: the case for a National Sustainable Home Building Agency
11am. Wednesday 14th June - online
Speakers: Dr Rory Hearne, author Gaffs: Why no one can get a house and what we can do about it (HarperCollins Ireland, 2022) & Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it (Policy Press, 2020), Assistant Professor in Social Policy Maynooth University.
Fr Peter McVerry, Housing campaigner and advocate.
This webinar will launch a policy paper authored by Dr Rory Hearne, housing expert, academic and author, and Phil Murphy Msc, housing researcher, that makes the case for establishing a national home building agency, ‘Homes for Ireland: the Irish Sustainable Home Building Agency, that would be a state developer, centre of expertise, construction and retrofit enterprise, that would build, refurbish and retrofit social and affordable homes in Ireland. This policy paper develops the proposal that Dr Hearne made in his two books on the housing crisis, Housing Shock (Hearne 2020) and, Gafffs (Hearne, 2022. It provides ten key arguments in favour of setting up a national sustainable home building agency, which set out why is it needed, and provides some ideas for how it might work in practice.