Purpose of the archive
*The archive considers a home to be a place of emotion and does not judge a home as a commercial entity. A People’s Archive of The Irish Housing Crisis sets out to challenge the mainstream views of the home, as “a disembodied brick thing”.*
A People’s Archive of The Irish Housing Crisis is an online living archive to collect, exhibit and provide access to all our stories, memories and accounts of how we feel about the threat or actuality of losing our home and what we are doing about it.
This archive was created in 2015 and intends to offer a safe and secure space to share our own testimonies, documents, images, videos or accounts et al that narrate or comment on encounters of the loss of the home and how it affects our lives, families and communities.
This people's archive is to honour all who are affected by this housing crisis, now in the present and those who were affected in the past and for future generations, who will undoubtedly be affected. We are not staying quiet about this housing crisis. We are actively voicing our concerns. This is a living people's archive, in that it will continue to expand, as the housing crisis expands.
*Quote from Oisín Ó Fágáin
A People’s Archive of The Irish Housing Crisis is an online living archive to collect, exhibit and provide access to all our stories, memories and accounts of how we feel about the threat or actuality of losing our home and what we are doing about it.
This archive was created in 2015 and intends to offer a safe and secure space to share our own testimonies, documents, images, videos or accounts et al that narrate or comment on encounters of the loss of the home and how it affects our lives, families and communities.
This people's archive is to honour all who are affected by this housing crisis, now in the present and those who were affected in the past and for future generations, who will undoubtedly be affected. We are not staying quiet about this housing crisis. We are actively voicing our concerns. This is a living people's archive, in that it will continue to expand, as the housing crisis expands.
*Quote from Oisín Ó Fágáin