Gaffs

Name: Gaffs
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Rory Hearne
ISBN: 9780008529604

Author: Rory Hearne

Narrator: Rory Hearne

Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/29/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, Public Policy, Business & Economics, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Poverty & Homelessness

Synopsis

The book that has been waiting to be written – how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their parents. Trapped in a game of rental roulette, stuck living at home as adults, and many on the brink of homelessness, the Irish housing crisis has defined the lives of an entire generation – and it is set to continue. With housing costs in Ireland the highest in the EU, the property ladder has been kicked from under thousands. So how did we get here … and how do we break the cycle? In Gaffs, housing expert Rory Hearne urges us to think about the people behind the statistics, and shows us that there is a way towards a future where everyone has access to a home.

About Rory Hearne

Rory Hearne is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy in Maynooth University, specialising in housing policy and housing rights. He makes regular appearances on national TV and radio as an expert on Ireland’s housing policy, including , , and . He has written articles for TheJournal.ie and . He is the author of (2020).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aisling on December 29, 2022

A MUST read! So much information about the housing crisis in Ireland, really eye opening, recommending it to everyone I meet......more

Goodreads review by Daryl on December 31, 2022

An excellent and infuriating account of all the ways the Irish housing sector is in a complete state of disrepair due to the decades of bad policy and neoliberal ideological decisions taken by Irish governments. There is a lot of repetition in the book, however the topic is so important it warrants......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on January 03, 2025

Listened as an audiobook Very repetitive in parts but definitely opened my eyes to the depth and extent of the issue - the housing crisis is all I've known in my late teenage/young adult life but the whys and hows were not as clear to me. Definitely left with a better understanding of these, but the......more

Goodreads review by Joe on June 08, 2024

The housing and homelessness crises have dominated have Irish political life for much of the last decade, with their traumatising and dehumanising effects being felt in practically every part of the country. But these crises, as the academic Rory Hearne argues in “Gaffs”, are no accidents or strokes......more

Goodreads review by Aleš on November 04, 2024

55/∞ ❗️❗️ Gaffs by Rory Hearne ❗️❗️ Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About it Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 Length: 352 pages 🔊Audiobook: 13 hours and 57 minutes Why you should read this book? 💡This book talks about severity of Irish housing crisis. 💡 To learn about inhuman living conditions in Ireland......more

Quotes

‘The heart of the book is a clear, cogent and persuasive account of how this crisis was created. Showing that it is, indeed, a deliberate creation is the strength of Hearne’s argument. And while this is a source of anger, it might also be a source of hope: what bad public policy has wrought, better policy can undo.’