Housing

This Conference endorses the NERI Document Irelands Housing Emergency Time for a Game Changer. We particularly welcome the proposal within the document which proposes to establish The Housing Company of Ireland. We reject the Government emphasis on relying on...

Congress views the right to housing as a fundamental and social right Ireland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet we are unable to house our people. The scale of emergency and the extent of human suffering caused by this major policy...

Conference notes the case –Brewster v NILGOSC – and efforts to obtain cohabiting couples equal rights under pension legislation. Conference notes that cohabiting couples are required to complete a declaration to obtain pension rights should a partner die while...

Conference notes that a large number of Northern Ireland Housing Executive tenants received letters in mid-February telling them that it is proposed to sell their homes to housing associations. Conference believes that the interests of tenants and of the...

That this conference: notes that homelessness is now a major issue North and South; recognises that in the Republic of Ireland the explosion in homelessness and rough sleeping has been one of the unacceptable consequences of the economic crisis and the...