Sunday Business Post

Right2Homes is pleased to present the articles which appeared in The Sunday Business Post on November 25, 2018. The authors, recognised social, legal, political, academic and sector authorities have expertise in every aspect of the #Housing and #Homeless crises both here in Ireland and abroad. All have generously contributed articles at our request. Constraints of […]

Using the law to help keep people in their homes – Edmund Honohan

Using the law to help keep people in their homes… The Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018 has been written by Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan, with the aim of enacting government policy in such a way as to keep people in their homes. Introduced in the Dáil last July, the bill highlights […]

Eviction is still a dirty word in Ireland – Senator David Norris

Eviction is still a dirty word in Ireland… “In June 2018 I proposed a bill in the Senate ‘The National Housing Agency Bill’, prepared in large part by Ed Honohan, Master of the High Court, at the behest of a group of people concerned about the fate of those citizens with distressed mortgages. An updated […]

Protecting families from predatory vulture funds – John McGuinness, TD

Protecting families from predatory vulture funds… When then Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirmed that it was the government’s policy to ensure that repossession of family homes should only be a last resort, I accepted his bona fides. With the present government, I have my doubts. Back then, the policy was that banks should deal with distressed borrowers through […]

Raise the tide, don’t sink the boats – Robert Hockett

Raise the tide, don’t sink the boats Ireland’s foreclosure crisis is a crisis of justice and a crisis of efficiency – not to say a crisis of mercy.   Ireland’s is a crisis of justice because most people are faced with foreclosure through no fault of their own. The exorbitant prices of their homes, and hence […]

Vulture Funds have green light to ‘solve’ the mortgage crisis – Brian Reilly

MORTGAGE RESCUE – NO COST TO THE TAXPAYER WHETHER you are a “performing” borrower or a “non-performing” borrower and in arrears, the sale of your loan and mortgage to a Vulture Fund represents an alarming development. Even though it is stated Government policy to “keep families in their home”s the self-same Government’s actions are of […]