Housing: Law and Practice provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account ofhousing law and the law governing housing authorities in Ireland. This book is anexpanded and revised edition of Housing Authority Law (2010).
Housing: Law and Practice focuses on the role of local authorities as housingproviders under the Housing Acts and related legislation. This also book deals with awide 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 impactof the ECHR Act 2003 upon housing authorities;• issues of anti-social behaviour;• potential liability of housing authorities in respect of the exercise, or nonexercise,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 liabilityof 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 timewhen dealing with housing issues.