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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · 8d

Today I launched with Threshold Charity a new report on Ireland’s Residential Licence Sector — a hidden part of the rental market

🟠 Licencees = renters without RTA protections
🟠 Vulnerable to eviction with little/no notice
🟠 No deposit protection

Full report here: threshold.ie/wp-content/u...

threshold.ie

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · 12d

Extreme deregulation of the energy sector means electricity companies can increase prices as much as they want. Ireland’s free-market approach to energy companies is clearly not working: prices are going up and not down and there’s no real competition
www.dublininquirer.com/as-profitabl...

As profitable energy companies raise customers’ prices, TD says it’s time to bring back price regulation

“We are approaching the point (if we’re not already there) where we can justifiably claim that competition has failed,” says Labour energy spokesperson Ciarán Ahern.

www.dublininquirer.com

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International Review of Public Policy @irpp.bsky.social · 22d

📢 The International Review of Public Policy is now on Bluesky!
A huge thank you to our editors, authors, reviewers, and the IPPA community for helping IRPP grow.
🌏All our issues are available online in open access:
bit.ly/3VS9iQW
We’d love to connect with fellow #PublicPolicy scholars — join us!

International Review of Public Policy

The International Review of Public Policy is dedicated to advance knowledge about public policy in different sectors, countries and regions of the world. – International Review of Public Policy se ...

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · 22d

UNITED NATIONS INVESTIGATORS have concluded that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, becoming the latest in a growing group of experts, scholars, states and NGOs to accuse Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of committing the crime of crimes

jrnl.ie/6818101

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN investigation finds

Israel has rejected the finding and called for the commission of inquiry to be abolished.

jrnl.ie

Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · 26d

'Somewhere along the way, the real human needs of home, family, and community, and the government imperatives of sustainable development and value for money have been lost to the unreal demands of real estate'

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Why new apartment standards won't mean housing more people

Half of the households in Ireland have children, yet there is no plan for where, and how, the next generations will live

www.rte.ie

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · 27d

Brilliant news: Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro found guilty of plotting coup. Sentence to be decide by the STF soon
“Grande dia! 👍”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brazil's former President Bolsonaro found guilty of coup plot - BBC News

The right-wing former leader could be sentenced to decades in prison after he was convicted by Brazil's Supreme Court.

www.bbc.com

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 27d

If you have a platform, use it to speak for those whose voices are not heard.

Society is a better place when we stand up to be counted.

It is heartening, in these days of wall-to-wall televised breathlessness for the politics of hate, to see ordinary folk voting for inclusion

#GaryLineker

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28d

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · 28d

Every year I see several of my students making HUGE efforts to attend lecture and university events, commuting long distance at least 4 days a week. It is so unfair to anyone in this situation
The student housing needs to be addressed properly

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Student accommodation crisis: ‘My commute takes two hours if there are no train delays’

Two-thirds of those surveyed, aged 18-24, believe they would be better off in other countries

www.irishtimes.com

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Constraints in the construction labour market significantly impact Ireland’s ability to meet housing demand targets. Policymakers can ease these through targeted measures aimed at increasing the construction workforce and adding to the existing housing stock

www.oireachtas.ie/en/how-parli...

Research Matters | Capacity constraints and Ireland's housing supply

www.oireachtas.ie

Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Aug 27

No one likes to live in arrangements like this, but vulnerable tenants are often unaware of their rights and lack of options so they are easily coerced into stressful and precarious situations.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

#housing #Ireland #eviction

‘I felt treated like a dog’: The Dublin landlord behind evictions, fines, short contracts

Tenants have complained about Leevin Ireland, the property company offering ‘a place to call home’ for international students and professionals

www.irishtimes.com

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Aug 26

"The destruction of Gaza is Israeli policy"

@irishtimes.com : Slaughtered journalists, medics and starving children will not sway public opinion here in Israel
👉 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: Slaughtered journalists, medics and starving children will not sway public opinion here in Israel

Views of the public are partly shaped by members of the media here who call for the killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza

www.irishtimes.com

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Aug 21

🌎 #JavierMilei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling it's diplomatic institutions, argues @consuelothiers.bsky.social.
💭 As ideology replaces expertise, #Argentina is a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations.
👉 buff.ly/oJPgD5y

Milei’s Argentina and the unmaking of diplomacy

Consuelo Thiers argues that Javier Milei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling its diplomatic institutions. As ideology replaces expertise, and institutional norms…

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Why are bosses turning against remote work?

Short answer: it’s easier to control, monitor and perhaps exploit workers in the physical office

The Explainer - @thejournal.ie
👉 www.thejournal.ie/podcasts/66f...

Why are bosses turning against remote work?

Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News

www.thejournal.ie

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 12

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Aug 3

The UN Statistics Division published the annual 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report
- According to the section about Goal #11 More than 1 billion individuals live in slums or informal settlements, experiencing homelessness & lacking basic services

👉 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13...

High-Level Dialogue on Adequate Housing for All (HLPF 2025 Side Event)

The High-level Dialogue on Adequate Housing, Side Event of the Ministerial Segment of the HLPF is co-hosted by the President of ECOSOC and the Executive Director of UN-Habitat.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Jul 29

‘Revenge is not a policy’: dissenting Israeli voices begin to penetrate silence over Gaza

In a country where criticising soldiers’ conduct is a sensitive matter, ‘people are speaking out more’

www.irishtimes.com

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Jul 21

On predatory academic journals and conferences patthomson.net/2025/07/16/o... via @patthomson

Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences (Full Report in English): www.interacademies.org/sites/defaul...

on predatory academic journals and conferences

I’m often asked about predatory journals. So I recently went on a hunt for something other than lists and found a 2022 report on predatory journals and conferences from the InterAcademy Partnership…

patthomson.net

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The SHINE Project @shineprojectie.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations to SHINE's Dr @valescal.bsky.social for this feature at the Housing Agency's Spotlight on Housing Research. More info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/housin...

The latest edition of The Housing Agency's Spotlight on Housing Research features Dr. | The Housing Agency Ireland

The latest edition of The Housing Agency's Spotlight on Housing Research features Dr. Valesca Lima and her current research on the design of housing policy interventions linked with resilience and...

www.linkedin.com

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Jul 13

It makes an analysis on how Independent Ireland & independents benefited by leveraging the housing-immigration link due to less party discipline seems in other parties and on how future far-right growth depends on addressing econ / housing grievances & avoiding nativism

Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Jul 13

I was reading this new report on housing, political parties & the far right in Ireland
It brings together some things already known about the anti-migration rhetoric fueling racism, but it's interesting to see the analysis of how political parties have responded to it
👉 www.ui.se/globalassets...

www.ui.se

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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Announcing the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/07/09/a...

Announcing the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards - Urban Studies Foundation

We at the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) are delighted to reveal the recipients of our 2025 Seminar Series Awards! This year, we are celebrating a diverse and

www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org

Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Jul 9

Woman left ‘shaken’ and ‘in tears’ after alleged racist incident on Bus Éireann bus

Bus Éireann says it is taking the complaint ‘very seriously’ and has launched an investigation - let's see what will come out of this

www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

Woman left ‘shaken’ and ‘in tears’ after alleged racist incident on Bus Éireann bus

Bus Éireann says it is taking the complaint ‘very seriously’ and has launched an investigation

www.irishtimes.com

Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · Jul 3

Israeli newspaper's reveals IDF' shoot-to-kill policy in Gaza
- Investigation by left-leaning 'Haaretz' journalists revealed both soldiers and army officers were, in their words, 'ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza'

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Israeli newspaper's claim IDF operates shoot-to-kill policy in Gaza sparks outrage among far right

Investigation by left-leaning 'Haaretz' journalists revealed both soldiers and army officers were, in their words, 'ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza'

www.irishexaminer.com

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The SHINE Project @shineprojectie.bsky.social · Jun 29

🚨 Exciting news! The SHINE project’s extended abstract about IAQ in Irish social housing is now published in the Data for Policy 2025 Conference book! The conference was held at Leiden University in The Hague on June 12-13. Read more about it here (pp. 104-107): zenodo.org/records/1573... 📚✨

Data for Policy 2025 (DfP'25) - Europe Book of Abstracts

zenodo.org

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