The Present & Future of Cost Rental Housing in Ireland

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This joint conference held between the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage aims to explore the development of the nascent cost rental sector in Ireland as well as explore the future for the sector in terms of scaling activity and ensuring sustainability.  

This event will include speakers from the ESRI, Department of Housing and the Land Development Agency as well as a roundtable with industry and policymakers. 

 

 

Agenda

9:00am

Registration and coffee

9:30am

Welcome

 Professor Martina Lawless, Director, ESRI

9:35am

Opening Address

Minister James Browne T.D., Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Session 1

Profiling Cost Rental and Its Early Development in the Irish Housing Landscape

Chair: Ronan Gallagher, Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage

10:00am

Pricing and Affordability of Ireland’s New Cost Rental Tenure

Dr Rachel Slaymaker, Economic and Social Research Institute

10:30am

The impact of cost rental housing: Security, affordability and place

Dr Cian O’Callaghan, Trinity College Dublin

11:00am

Delivering Cost Rental at Scale – the LDA View

Enda McGuane, Director of Asset Management – Land Development Agency

11:30am

Tea/Coffee

Session 2

Future and Viability of Cost Rental

Chair: Prof. Conor O’Toole, Economic and Social Research Institute

12:00pm

Roundtable Discussion

Participants:
Jim Baneham, Director – Delivery and Innovation – The Housing Agency
Lyndsey Anderson, Housing Policy Specialist – Irish Council for Social Housing
Martin Loughran, Chief Commercial Officer – Tuath Housing
Professor Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer – Technological University Dublin 
Keith Jones, Director of Service, Housing, Asset Management and Land Development – Cork County Council

12:50pm

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