{"id":657894,"date":"2026-08-26T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/657894\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:38:08","slug":"cllrs-angrily-reject-that-migration-key-driver-of-housing-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/657894\/","title":{"rendered":"Cllrs angrily reject that migration key driver of housing demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A lengthy and \u2018wide ranging\u2019 interview with the Minister for Housing published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesspost.ie\/politics\/james-browne-interview-dysfunctional-housing-market-needs-to-learn-to-stand-on-its-own-two-feet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Business Post<\/a> is as interesting for what he did not say, as much as for what he did.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He refers to the need for local authorities to rezone even greater swathes of land for housing development and welcomes the growing interest being shown by \u201cinternational investors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lengthy and \u2018wide ranging\u2019 interview with the Minister for Housing published by the Sunday Business Post is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,278047,784,278048,18,278049,3847,19,17,6395,176081],"class_list":["post-657894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cllrs","tag-dublin-city-council","tag-dunsink","tag-eire","tag-fingal-council","tag-housing","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-migration","tag-waiting-lists"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}