Gaffs
- Author Rory Hearne
- Narrator Rory Hearne
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 29 September 2022
- Run Time 13 hours and 57 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Economic and financial crises and disasters, Housing and homelessness, Housing and property for the individual: buying/selling and legal aspects, Housing law, Labour / income economics, Law, Ownership and mortgage law, Popular economics, Poverty and precarity, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology, Urban and municipal planning and policy.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
'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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