CPD Bootcamp: Housing Affordability: Ireland in a cross-country context
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Fri, 22 September 2023
12:00 - 13:00
Location
Your event Zoom link is available via IOB Learn, but will also be emailed to you before 11am on the morning of your event.
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Fri, 22 September 2023
12:00 - 13:00
Location
Your event Zoom link is available via IOB Learn, but will also be emailed to you before 11am on the morning of your event.
Persistent, structural housing affordability challenges in Ireland have been well documented for particular groups (private renters, low to middle income households and those in urban areas). Recent research has also documented the access to credit constraints faced by first-time buyers and the challenges associated with accumulating a deposit and tight loan-to-income limits. However, these challenges are not unique to Ireland, and worsening affordability pressures and falling homeownership rates have been highlighted globally as the share of household income spent on housing costs has risen over-time. Join Dr Rachel Slaymaker, research officer with the ESRI and co-author of the 2023 paper “Housing affordability: Ireland in a cross-country context”, for an engaging conversation on the housing affordability challenges faced in Ireland. Rachel will examine how key affordability indicators such as housing-payment-cost-to-income ratios for Irish households (across tenures, incomes, household composition, urbanisation and age) compare with those in 14 other European countries.
This event is available to IOB Members. If you are not currently a member, you can sign up here!
Registration for this event will close at midnight the night prior to the event or when it reaches capacity.
There is 1 CPD hour available for the following designations:
-QFA (Loans)
-APA (Loans)
-RS (Loans)
-MCI
-LCI
-FCI Compliance
Dr Rachel Slaymaker
Research Officer, Economic Analysis Division, ESRI
Rachel Slaymaker is a Research Officer in the Economic Analysis Division, having joined the ESRI in September 2017 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Rachel is an applied microeconomist and her research interests are in the areas of Housing Economics, Household Finance, Applied Banking and International Migration. Rachel obtained her PhD in Economics from University of Nottingham. Rachel’s research at the ESRI focuses on topics such as housing affordability, determinants of mortgage arrears, household credit access, macroprudential policies, rent stabilisation measures, and SME financing/credit gaps. Previously she co-authored a Review of the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan and Rachel is currently a member of the Housing Commission Working Group on Delivery: Finance, Costs, Affordability and Viability. Her research has been published in both domestic and international peer-reviewed journals and has been widely covered in the media.
