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Gaffs
- Author
- Rory Hearne
- Narrator
- Rory Hearne
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 29 September 2022
- Run Time
- 13 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Housing and homelessness, Sociology, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Popular economics, Housing and property for the individual: buying / selling / renting and legal aspects, Poverty and precarity, Housing law, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Ownership and mortgage law, Labour / income economics
What to expect
Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their parents. Trapped in a game of rental roulette, stuck living at home as adults, and many on the brink of homelessness, the Irish housing crisis has defined the lives of an entire generation – and it is set to continue.
With housing costs in Ireland the highest in the EU, the property ladder has been kicked from under thousands. So how did we get here … and how do we break the cycle?
In Gaffs, housing expert Rory Hearne urges us to think about the people behind the statistics, and shows us that there is a way towards a future where everyone has access to a home.
Critics Review
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‘The heart of the book is a clear, cogent and persuasive account of how this crisis was created. Showing that it is, indeed, a deliberate creation is the strength of Hearne’s argument. And while this is a source of anger, it might also be a source of hope: what bad public policy has wrought, better policy can undo.’ Fintan O’Toole The Irish Times
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Details
- Author
- Rory Hearne
- Narrator
- Rory Hearne
- Duration
- 13 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9780008529604
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Housing and homelessness, Sociology, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Popular economics, Housing and property for the individual: buying / selling / renting and legal aspects, Poverty and precarity, Housing law, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Ownership and mortgage law, Labour / income economics
Synopsis
The book that has been waiting to be written – how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their parents. Trapped in a game of rental roulette, stuck living at home as adults, and many on the brink of homelessness, the Irish housing crisis has defined the lives of an entire generation – and it is set to continue. With housing costs in Ireland the highest in the EU, the property ladder has been kicked from under thousands. So how did we get here … and how do we break the cycle? In Gaffs, housing expert Rory Hearne urges us to think about the people behind the statistics, and shows us that there is a way towards a future where everyone has access to a home.
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