Exploring affordability in the Irish housing market

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This paper examines housing affordability in Ireland by looking at the distribution of housing costs across households. Using microdata from the SILC survey over the period 2005-2015, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the paper considers the trends in the cost of housing in Ireland across groups of households split by age, region, household structure, and their position in the income distribution. Second, we apply selected international housing affordability definitions and explore the share, and composition, of households in Ireland that would be captured by these definitions. We do not find evidence of universal affordability difficulties in the Irish market. However, certain groups do face acute affordability challenges. Third, working towards a definition of housing cost affordability for use in Irish policy discussions, we provide some guidance as to what such a definition could look like.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ESRI Working Paper ; No. 593

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand ; Housing Supply and Markets ; Production Analysis and Firm Location: Government Policy
• Subject: Housing affordability ; mortgage market ; private rental sector

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Corrigan, Eoin ; Foley, Daniel ; McQuinn, Kieran ; O'Toole, Conor ; Slaymaker, Rachel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
• (where): Dublin
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/193930
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