Moses2013

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/p...-40776951.html

A new grant of up to €30,000 to help people who buy derelict properties to renovate and live in is to be launched in the coming weeks, housing minister Darragh O'Brien has revealed.

OrangeMango

Finally there is something being done about the ongoing Sex for Rent issues in Dublin:

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/202...tion-sex-rent/

morpeth

Just imagine the complications of such rules actually making a substantive difference- whether landlords proposing such arrangements informally or renters doing so.Might reduce advertisements of such arrangements that is all.

Moses2013

True, it will still happen and these discussions are happening everywhere now. Even if there was no housing shortage, people would still attempt to do it and offer the apartment for less.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/h...x-for-rent-law

OrangeMango

It'll probably continue to happen.
At least law makers have understood and recognized that it is a problem and it can't be downplayed with the usual "it's happening in other cities as well".
Nowhere other than Dublin have I seen such long queues just to view one single room, let alone a one bedroom apartment.
The rental market in Dublin is broken, if there even is one.

morpeth

This typical of many problems today- the root causes not being addressed, indeed avoided.