Dr Rory Hearne, MUSSI, Maynooth University
and
Michelle Russell, Irish Housing Network
Recent developments in the Irish housing market (rise in homelessness, mortgage arrears, and government and local authority policy developments such as austerity, the privatisation of social housing provision through the private rental sector and new Public Private Partnerships on former social housing estates) are a useful case study to explore the actually existing forms of post-crisis neoliberalisation and financialisation. This presentation provides an overview and critical analysis of some of the key policy developments, contributory factors and impacts of the on-going neoliberalisation of housing policy on social and spatial inequalities in Ireland. It also explores some of the recent social struggles, community and NGO campaigns that are attempting to contest and re-shape these unequal processes and assert a right to the city for all inhabitants, particularly the most vulnerable and theorises what these suggest about the on-the-ground reality of neoliberalisation and its contestation in the area of access to affordable housing.
4-5:30pm
9 March 2017
Rocque Lab,
Rhetoric House
Maynooth University
Biosketch:
Dr Rory Hearne is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in MUSSI Maynooth working on the Re-Invest Participatory Action Human Rights and Capability project in relation to social investment with a particular focus on homelessness and water infrastructure. He is also a former policy analyst with the inequality think tank TASC, a contract lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography Maynooth and has worked as a community development worker on regeneration and human rights in Dublin's inner city. He is also a regular economic and social analyst on various national media.
Michelle Russell is a member of Dublin Central Housing Action, part of the Irish Housing Network. The Irish Housing Network is a collection of groups focussed on housing, homeless & other related issues, fighting the ongoing housing & homeless crisis. We believe those affected should lead the struggle, and that housing is a right that should be provided based on need.