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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
Common sense solutions can help our economies, environment, and climate
When it’s not easy to do the right thing.
Ways to think about the public funding of science
The planning system has a tool to say yes to new homes
Modern regulations prevent old building become new homes
Reducing the reach of the state to increase the reach of the state.
Cut construction costs, free up land, and speed up planning
Ireland’s EIA regulations are stricter than Brussels asked for.
How a proven tool could unlock beautiful neighbourhoods
An assessment of Glaeser’s regulatory tax in Ireland.
How Japan builds its dense cities
Freeing up land, not just new technology, may be part of the solution
A cheap, flexible, abundant source of funding is going unused.
Ireland has mountains(plural) to climb.
How Ireland’s water network places a cap on its development
A response to Research Ireland’s public consultation on its corporate strategy.
The procedure fetish meets the grid
How one government document has made housing even scarcer and more expensive
International evidence shows how removing barriers to building small homes boosts housing supply
Ireland taxes startups more heavily than all but two European countries.
A recent study from the Department of Housing hints at why so few apartments get built.
ARPAs are a proven way for governments to innovate. Ireland should consider setting one up for agriculture technology.
The first of a three-part series on housing. First up is planning; next will be construction costs; the final topic will be zoning.
How Progress Ireland’s newest policy, Street Plan Development Zones, could unlock the potential of our towns and cities
Homeowners are currently entitled to build a small office, gym, or garage on their property without applying for planning permission. They are not entitled to build a small home.
Deliberately importing ideas has taken Ireland a long way. It should keep going.