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Home: A Year in Ireland's Housing Crisis Image Name: Home: A Year in Ireland's Housing Crisis
Home: A Year in Ireland's Housing Crisis Image Name: Home: A Year in Ireland's Housing Crisis

Even before Covid 19 hit, Ireland’s housing crisis was forcing us to adapt our idea of home in ways that previous generations would have thought unimaginable.

At the time, half of all adults aged under 30 lived at home with their parents. Rents had more than doubled in some areas, yet home ownership was its lowest rate since 1971.

Now as lockdown restrictions begin to ease and recession looms, these issues are more relevant than ever. The cameras follow a cross-section of people from all walks of Irish life as they attempt to navigate a way through the ups and downs of life in Ireland where spiralling rents, soaring house prices and so-called “vulture funds” continue to have an impact. For some, it’s all about keeping their heads above water as they search for a home of their own. For others, it’s about redefining their relationship to home just to survive in a world utterly transformed Covid19.