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Irish Websites
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Construction Industry Federation (CIF)
[ http://www.cif.ie ]
Management association for the Irish construction industry.
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Irish Government Website
[ http://www.irlgov.ie ]
Information on the Irish State and links to web sites of the houses of the Oireachtas; Government Departments and the different sections of the public service.
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Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government
[ http://www.environ.ie ]
Useful information on the structure of the Department, statistics on the public housing programme, lists of publications and policy documents.
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Irish Local Authorities Directory
[ http://www.gov.ie/organisations/list.asp?type=7&D=... ]
Details of the web sites of all Irish local authorities. Although these sites vary greatly in their level of detail, most of them contain details of the housing management staff in each local authority and many contain details of the activities of the different housing departments and of their house building programmes.
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Ballymun Regeneration Ltd.
[ http://www.brl.ie ]
Details of the masterplan for the regeneration of Ballymun, the plans for the implementation of this projects and the procedures for consultation with the residents of Ballymun and the surrounding area on the regeneration of the estate.
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Temple Bar Properties
[ http://www.temple-bar.ie ]
Information on the history of Temple Bar and the now almost complete programme for the regeneration of the area.
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Dublin Docklands Development Authority
[ http://www.ddda.ie ]
Details of the key activities of thus organisation and information on the operation of the affordable housing scheme in this area.
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National Association of Building Co-operatives (NABCO)
[ http://www.nabco.ie ]
Formed in 1973 by local housing co-operatives to act as the representative, promotion, information, training and development federation for the co-operative housing movement, including home ownership and rental co-operatives.
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Irish Council for Social Housing
[ http://www.icsh.ie ]
Information, advice, guidance for non profit and voluntary housing associations in Ireland as well as details of the education and training services provided by the ICSH.
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Threshold
[ http://www.threshold.ie ]
The web site of the private rented housing advice and campaigning agency Threshold provides useful advice for tenants renting in this sector.
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Institute of Public Administration
[ http://www.ipa.ie ]
The main provider of training on public housing management in Ireland.
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Simon Community
[ http://www.simoncommunity.com ]
The Simon Community work to prevent and reverse homelessness. Their site contains information on the problem of homelessness in Ireland, the philosophy and history of the Simon Community in Ireland and contact details for Simian's regional offices around Ireland.
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Focus Ireland
[ http://www.focusireland.ie ]
National voluntary organisation working to prevent and eliminate homelessness throughout Ireland.
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The Office for Social Inclusion
[ http://www.socialinclusion.ie ]
Located in the Department of Social and Family Affairs, OSI is the Irish Government Office with overall responsibility for developing, co-ordinating and driving Ireland's National Action Plan against Poverty and Social Exclusion.
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Combat Poverty Agency
[ http://www.combatpoverty.ie ]
Combat Poverty is a statutory organisation responsible for advising the Irish Government on policies to reduce poverty in Ireland.
Housing in Northern Ireland
Housing in Britain
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
[ http://www.jrf.org.uk ]
The UK's largest independent social research agency.
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TPAS (Tenant Participation Advisory Service)
[ http://www.tpas.org.uk ]
A national non-profit organisation which provides information, advice, training, constancy, seminars and conferences on all aspects of tenant participation housing management.
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Directgov (UK Government Information Portal)
[ http://www.direct.gov.uk ]
Directgov brings together the widest range of UK public service information and services online.
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Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
[ http://www.communities.gov.uk ]
- The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) was created in 2006 with a remit to promote community cohesion and equality, as well as responsibility for housing, urban regeneration, planning and local government.
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UK Department for Transport
[ http://www.dft.gov.uk ]
- UK Department for Transport website for local government, the transport sector, passengers and motorists.
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Housingnet
[ http://www.housingnet.co.uk ]
- The first stop when seeking information on housing in Britain should be Housingnet - the database of web based information on housing.
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Housing in the European Union
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Founded in 1988 to promote the work of social housing organisations in the EU.
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Organisation which aims to promote communications and contacts between research institutes and individual researchers in Europe who are engaged in social housing research. The Network arranges and supports conferences within the housing field and has also set up a number of working groups, which are intended to address housing problems on a cross national, European basis.
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FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless) brings together approximately 70 organisations working with homeless people in EU countries as well as central and eastern Europe. It is funded by the European Commission and its main objectives are to exchange and provide information and to promote policies related to homelessness with the European institutions.