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Housing expert Stewart Smyth argues that the current NI Housing Bill represents a re-privatisation of housing associations, with less control and regulation but the same amount of public money. Devolution was supposed to allow local decision-making to fit local circumstances. Housing is one of those devolved responsibilities that
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October 3rd saw ten thousand march through the streets of Dublin, protesting the housing policies that have created a crisis. In his latest piece for Rebel, Dr Stewart Smyth looks at how problematic policies have left more homeless and with less opportunity to find housing. Late 2018 will be remembered
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In the wake of the heavy handed eviction of housing activists in Dublin, Stewart Smyth labels the move by masked gardaí as an own goal and lays out the socialist solution to the housing crisis. In many long running campaigns, a single event can capture the essence of the issue,
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As Summerhill occupation activists take over abandoned properties in Dublin, People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett details how Ireland’s housing crisis is not an accident but a policy that benefits the few over the many. The human misery being suffered by tens of thousands of women, children and