摘要：This paper examines housing affordability in Ireland by looking at the distribution of housing
costs across households. Using microdata from the SILC survey over the period 2006-2016, the
contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the paper considers the trends in the cost of housing in
Ireland across groups of households split by age, region, household structure, and their position in the
income distribution. Second, we apply selected international housing affordability definitions and explore
the share, and composition, of households in Ireland that would be captured by these definitions. We do
not find evidence of universal affordability difficulties in the Irish market. However, certain groups do
face acute affordability challenges. Third, working towards a definition of housing cost affordability for
use in Irish policy discussions, we provide some guidance as to what such a definition could look like.
其他摘要：This paper examines housing affordability in Ireland by looking at the distribution of housing costs across households. Using microdata from the SILC survey over the period 2006-2016, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the paper considers the trends in the cost of housing in Ireland across groups of households split by age, region, household structure, and their position in the income distribution. Second, we apply selected international housing affordability definitions and explorethe share, and composition, of households in Ireland that would be captured by these definitions. We do not find evidence of universal affordability difficulties in the Irish market. However, certain groups do face acute affordability challenges. Third, working towards a definition of housing cost affordability for use in Irish policy discussions, we provide some guidance as to what such a definition could look like.
