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Book Chapter

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Social issues

Publication Details

Institute of Public Administration, 2014

The cover, contents and first chapter are replicated here with the kind permission of the publisher.

The book can be purchased here

Abstract

As part of the overall housing sector, renting has seen a considerable increase in the first 14 years of the twenty-first century. Numbers renting are now similar to those of the 1950s, when Ireland was a very different place economically and socially. Today renting is driven by forces ranging from necessity to choice to ongoing urbanisation: it is becoming the tenure of preference for many, while remaining the tenure for others with no choice. Governing legislation, providers of rental accommodation and the various rental sectors’ economic value and importance are all in flux. The traditional divide between state-supplied social housing and the private rented sector is blurring in the face of political preference for market-led solutions and for the voluntary and private sectors to be the main, if not sole, providers of rental accommodation in Ireland.

Renting in Ireland brings together for the first time a range of housing experts and practitioners to discuss and analyse renting’s role in Irish society. It comprises sections on the private rented sector; the social rented sector; and other relevant issues including renting and minorities, legislation, space standards and the experience in Northern Ireland. It is hoped that Renting in Ireland will help to contextualise discussions on renting, inform debate, and provide insight into how renting affects society and ideas on where to go next for a sector that has never quite received the attention it deserves.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/9ccn-0m32

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