The cost of renting a home in Dublin city is now marginally higher than the previous peak recorded in late 2007, according to the latest rental index from the Residential Tenancies Board.
The Government has no plans to forcibly take possession of vacant properties, according to Minister for Housing Simon Coveney.
Chairman of the Housing Agency Conor Skehan has said more needs to be done to solve the housing crisis than just building new homes.
Fr. Peter McVerry welcomes ‘Solidarity Housing’ as important contribution to thinking on housing
New rent measures ‘designed to frustrate’, landlords say.
It is taking more than a year to get social housing units ready for new tenants after they have been vacated in some parts of the country.
It has emerged modular homes being built to alleviate the homelessness crisis in Dublin will end up costing taxpayers over €240,000 each.
Research from property website Myhome.ie indicates that property prices are showing renewed signs of momentum.
New figures from Focus Ireland show that 83 families became homeless in February.
The Economic and Social Research Institute has said that the Central Bank's mortgage lending rules should be modified to ensure more housing is built.
However, it also recommends that a modified rule would work to prevent an oversupply of housing, as happened during the last decade.
Figures from the Private Residential Tenancies Board show that rents in Dublin are now higher than they were during the previous peak in 2007.
However the data shows that the rate of growth in the cost of rented accommodation slowed in the final quarter of last year.
A report on the housing shortage says apartment building has all but ground to a halt in Dublin, despite an increasing demand for homes and sharply rising prices.
The Government is to examine the introduction of legislative changes to prevent banks from evicting tenants from repossessed rental properties.
It is one of a range of measures discussed at a meeting between the housing charity Focus Ireland and Taoiseach Enda Kenny last Friday.
New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that house prices nationwide rose by 7.6% in the year to January.
The Workplace Relations Commission has said it does not have the resources to adjudicate on cases of alleged discrimination by landlords against prospective tenants in receipt of rent allowance.