Housing Law and Practice

Authors: Dr Neil Maddox and Finn Keyes BL

ISBN: 9781911611936

Format: Hardback

Extent: Approx 400 pages

Published: 18 April 2024

Housing: Law and Practice provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of housing law and the law governing housing authorities in Ireland. This book is an expanded and revised edition of the Housing Authority Law (2010).

Housing: Law and Practice focuses on the role of local authorities as housing providers under the Housing Acts and related legislation. This also book deals with a wide range of issues including:

• social and affordable housing;

• local authority powers of CPO in respect of their housing function;

• housing authorities and the Traveller community;

• human rights and constitutional law relating to housing, as well as the impact of the ECHR Act 2003 upon housing authorities;

• issues of  anti-social behaviour;

• potential liability of housing authorities in respect of the exercise, or non-exercise, of their functions;

• issues of eviction and of homelessness and emergency accommodation.

• contains a comprehensive account of the Housing Acts and related regulation;

• provides clear discussion of the case-law that illuminates the potential liability of housing authorities in areas such as housing provision and maintenance, the termination of tenancies, as well as planning;

• Contains an analyses of the key legislation and case-law which will save time when dealing with housing issues.

Chapters Include

• Functions of Housing Authorities

• Social and Affordable Housing

• The Sale and Lease of Dwellings

• Management, Control and Enforcement Functions

• Recovery of Possession of Dwellings by Housing Authorities

• Liability of Housing Authorities

• Housing Authorities and the Compulsory Acquisition of Land

• Housing and Traveller Accommodation

• Homelessness and Emergency Accommodation

• Housing Law, Constitutional Law and Human Rights