The ICSH Spring/Summer 2025 newsletter has a particular focus on the enormously successful International Social Housing Festival 2025.
The fifth International Social Housing Festival (ISHF 2025), an initiative of Housing Europe, hosted by ICSH and supported by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Housing Europe and Co-operative Housing Ireland, gathered more than 2500 delegates at Dublin’s Convention Centre from 4–6 June 2025. Since its inception in Amsterdam in 2017, the Festival has welcomed participants who – through sharing, tracking, scrutinising and imagining – have always adopted the widest lens possible in their collective vision for social and affordable housing. So from Amsterdam, Lyon, Helsinki, Barcelona to Dublin in 2025, the Irish Council for Social Housing was immensely proud to provide this platform for generative thinking on housing, a fundamental right.
As always, we profile our members’ social and cost rental housing delivery to date for 2025, and ICSH work and projects on behalf of our members. We also have a special feature on the Irish Tenant Engagement Network (ITEN) .
