Grainne Hassett is a practising architect & Head of the School of Architecture, University of Limerick (SAUL). Her practice, Hassett Ducatez Architects is committed to a close connection between architecture and its own research. www.hassettducatezarchitects.com/
Read MoreDr. Tony Fahey is a social scientist, a former researcher and author with the ESRI, the Economic Social Research Institute and a emeritus professor at UCD in social policy. Helen Shaw sat down with him to explore why housing policy has failed in Ireland to meet the needs and demands of the country and what are the factors at play behind the housing crisis. For Tony Fahey finance is at the heart of the problem and he traces it to the fiscal crisis in the 1980s. www.esri.ie/people/tony-fahey
Read MoreDr Joe Brady is an urban geographer at UCD with a passion for cities, particularly hometown Dublin City, and he is an expert in the history of housing in Dublin. Producer Helen Shaw took Joe back to Marino, not far from where he grew up, and where her grandparents moved, from the Dublin tenements in 1932. How could Dublin City Council build a mini garden city of social housing in the 20s and 30s and why is Dublin struggling to meet its housing challenge today?
Read MoreIn the busy café facing Vienna's City Hall This is Where We Live producer Helen Shaw gets to catch up with Michaela Kauer who runs the Vienna House in Brussels representing the City of Vienna and its interests in Brussels and the EU. Michaela is a public advocate for the housing policy of Vienna and Vienna leads globally in public housing strategy. Helen met Michaela during the Housing for All conference in Vienna, connecting housing stories across Europe.
Read MoreUN Special Rapporteur for Housing Leilani Farha talks about her impression of Dublin's housing crisis and her movement 'The Shift', which offers a new global perspective on housing: those who are homeless and inadequately housed must be treated as human rights claimants and key actors must implement the right to adequate housing in a new urban rights agenda. Helen Shaw interviewed Leilani Farha at the Vienna Housing for All conference hosted by the City of Vienna December 4-5 2018.
www.unhousingrapp.org/the-shift
Read MoreDr Orna Rosenfeld is an international housing expert and chatted with Helen Shaw about trends in housing policy for This is Where We Live during the recent Housing For All conference in Vienna, December 2018.
Dr. Orna Rosenfeld is a housing adviser to the European Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and international development banks financing housing. She is adjunct professor at Sciences Po – Paris Institute of Political Sciences in Paris and and alumna of the University of Westminster in London.
Karin Ramser, Director of the City of Vienna’s Community Housing (Wiener Wohnen) talks about Vienna's history of social and public housing (Gemeindebau) and how it's seen as a social good, and an integral part of the city's approach to creating a just, equitable and peaceful community.
Read MoreHugh Brennan runs O Cualann Cohousing Alliance and builds affordable houses in an innovative way, producing high quality homes for people who buy at affordable levels to their income using a cooperative model. Producer Helen Shaw met Hugh at his latest project in Baile na Laochra, Poppintree, Ballymun and got an insight into how it works. Visit the project here www.ocualann.ie/poppintree.html. The development is side by side with both 100% private and social housing in an area close to IKEA off the M50.
Read MoreDr Ruth McManus, urban geographer DCU, takes Helen Shaw on a walk through Drumcondra and its social housing, between Griffith Park and Home Farm Road, built between 1920s -60s, creating a social village from the library at the park to Corpus Christi Church and primary school on Home Farm Road.
Read MoreDr Joe Brady is an urban geographer at UCD with a passion for cities, particularly hometown Dublin City, and he is an expert in the history of housing in Dublin. Producer Helen Shaw took Joe back to Marino, not far from where he grew up, and where her grandparents moved, from the Dublin tenements in 1932. How could Dublin City Council build a mini garden city of social housing in the 20s and 30s and why is Dublin struggling to meet its housing challenge today?
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