AIRO, a free-to-use online monitoring tool that allows users to interrogate the geography of Dublin's housing, has been launched by Maynooth University in partnership with Dublin City Council.

The interactive housing monitoring tool includes over 700 maps revealing changes in the spatial patterns of all private and social housing tenures, including information relating to household composition and state housing supports to private renters.

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Councillor Críona Ní Dhálaigh officially launched the new monitoring tool in the Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council.

She said: "As chair of Dublin City Council's Strategic Policy Committee on Housing, I would like to stress the importance and need for good quality, accessible and affordable public housing in the Dublin region to ensure that the city and its environs are a successful place for people to live and work.

"The mapping of housing data is extremely useful to support the future planning and distribution of housing in Dublin and to support the decision making of central government and the local authorities to meet the scale of housing need that is required in the region."

(CD/JP)