Permission has been granted for 3,500 new homes on Dublin's Poolbeg peninsula with 25% earmarked for social and affordable housing.
Local representatives have welcomed the decision by An Bord Pleanála.
Galway City Council has called on the Government to declare a state of emergency in relation to housing.
The move comes as increasing number of people experience homelessness in the west, with a shortage of rental properties causing significant distress for many others.
AIB is set to introduce a range of lower fixed mortgage rates, as well as a new ten year fixed rate.
Over €1.1 billion was spent by corporate investors on multi-unit residential schemes last year, according to a new report by property consultants Savills Ireland.
The Capuchin Day Centre has announced it is to donate €5m for a housing initiative.
Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has said the increase in homeless numbers is very disappointing and a number of people are at "the very blunt end of the housing difficulties".
A UN report on housing has been called a "wake-up call" for the Government by the leader of Sinn Féin.
Figures obtained by RTÉ News show that over 650 tenants had their Housing Assistance Payment stopped because they have fallen into arrears with their contribution to the payment.
Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy is being called on to clarify whether a Government-backed mortgage scheme has been put on hold because it has run out of funding.
The number of people homeless and living in emergency accommodation across the State has reached a record high and now stands just below 10,000.
Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has defended the spending of €400m on the Housing Assistance Payment, saying it is needed to keep people out of emergency accommodation "or worse".
A new State lender for small and medium sized builders and developers has opened for business today.
The organisation representing employers has called for significant reform of the planning system, including changes to the law governing Compulsory Purchase Orders.
Irish banks are now required to give mortgage customers more information about their loan in order to help them save money by moving to a better rate or switching provider.
A global private investment firm has partnered with an Irish property company and the Irish Strategic Investment Fund to build hundreds of private and social rental homes in Dublin and other major cities here.