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Housing in NI: Have rents in Belfast gone up 50% in half a decade?
2 February 2026
In a 12 December article published in the Financial Times, Queen’s University Belfast Economics Professor Richard Ramsey claimed that rents in Belfast had: “Gone up
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Housing in NI: Are rents rising faster in Belfast than in London?
8 July 2025
In a post on social media, the Alliance Party claimed: “Rent [is] rising faster in Belfast than London.” This claim is supported by evidence. There
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Housing in NI: Is 90% of social housing segregated?
17 April 2025
During a 25 March Assembly debate on the financial and social impacts of division, Alliance Party MLA Eoin Tennyson claimed: “Over the course of my Articles
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Housing in NI: Why “vacant domestic properties” are different than “houses without usual residents” and neither actually means just “empty homes”, plus other statistical pitfalls
11 April 2025
In a 24 February debate in the Assembly on a new deal for private renters, People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll said: “According to Land Articles
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Housing in Northern Ireland: is housebuilding at a sixty-year low?
17 October 2024
In an article for RTÉ News published on 9 October, journalist Una Kelly wrote: “[Securing] housing in the North is becoming increasingly difficult for many
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Are over 5,000 children in NI living in temporary accommodation?
19 July 2024
On June 28, in a post on social media, solicitor and political commentator, Sarah Creighton claimed: “In Northern Ireland, 5106 children are living in temporary Articles
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Is loss of rental accommodation consistently a top reason why people in NI become homeless?
13 June 2024
In its strategic plan for 2024-29, housing advice and advocacy charity Housing Rights claimed: “Losing rental accommodation remains in the top three reasons for homelessness. Articles
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Can Northern Ireland landlords get larger rates reductions than renters and owner-occupiers?
11 January 2024
On 25 October in an article for the Belfast Telegraph, journalist and policy expert Paul Gosling claimed that: “As landlords, we are given a discount Articles
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Have social housing waiting lists almost doubled in 20 years?
26 October 2023
On 7 October, an article in the Belfast Telegraph claimed: “Two decades ago, 26,248 people were waiting for social housing. Now more than 45,000 are
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Is childcare the biggest cost for NI families, after housing?
1 September 2022
Childcare isn’t relevant to every home – but, for such households, this claim is backed by evidence. Annual surveys show that for over half of Articles
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Is Belfast the most lucrative city in the UK for students’ landlords?
27 July 2022
MLA Gerry Carroll made this claim based on a story in the Belfast Telegraph That story was based on a report from insurance firm CIA Economy
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