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#637 Property Emergency. Use It or Lose It?
Ireland is in the midst of a housing emergency — rents and homelessness are rising, while tens of thousands of homes sit empty. According to the 2022 Census, there were over 160,000 properties recorded as vacant across the State — nearly 8 % of all housing stock — including houses and apartments that have been unoccupied for years. Around 48,000 of these homes were vacant in both the 2016 and 2022 censuses, suggesting long-term vacancy rather than short-term gaps between tenancies or renovations.
More recent mapping data from GeoDirectory shows roughly 80,000 residential homes vacant…
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