Trinity Centre for Urban and Regional Studies  in association with The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice

Invites you to Symposium

Housing in Ireland: Philosophy, Policies and Results

Wednesday, 29 November 2017, 5–7 p..m.

Joly Theatre, Hamilton Building, Westland Row Trinity College Dublin

This Symposium will provide a critical analysis of:
• Alternative philosophical approaches to housing
• The policies currently being pursued
• The results: affordability and new homes

Speakers

Sinéad Kelly, Department of Geography, Maynooth University
‘Neo-liberalism and its Impact on Housing Systems’

P.J. Drudy, Trinity College Dublin
‘Market Failure: Out-of-Reach House Prices and Rents’

Peter McVerry SJ, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice
‘Homelessness: Have We Lost our sense of Outrage?’

Rory Hearne, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute
‘New Inequalities in Irish Housing’

Daithi Downey, Dublin City Council
‘Sustainablility, Affordability and Choice: Towards a Cost Rental and Unitary Rental System’

Cian O’Callaghan and Philip Lawton, School of Geography, Trinity College Dublin
‘The Challenge and Opportunities of Vacant Space: Unfinished Legacy of the Property Crash’

Margaret Burns, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice
‘The Right to Housing: What is the Issue?’

Contacts:
Margaret Burns (mburns@jcfj.ie) or P.J. Drudy (pdrudy@tcd.ie

From: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice
26 Upper Sherrard Street
Dublin, Dublin 7
Ireland