How Brussels can help with Galway’s housing problems
Creating the best possible incentives
Newsletter
Progress Ireland covers the policy ideas and debates shaping our future. From housing and planning reform to infrastructure delivery and scientific innovation, each edition focuses on what matters.
Creating the best possible incentives
Solving the housing crisis may mean solving lots of different problems. But solving all of them involves more abundant housing.
Sticks and carrots from the United States.
The reason housing is scarce and expensive is not speculators
First the policy, then the backlash.
Why investment taxes matter for ordinary people.
Concentrated costs should be accompanied by concentrated benefits.
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
For housing activists, there is no door to knock on.
Cutting costs, freeing up land, and speeding up planning is good
What New South Wales, Canada, and Irish bungalows all have in common
Regulations should be judged by their effects, not by their intentions.
Three tactics for green growth