The recent International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) in Dublin brought together over 2,000 delegates from across Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Asia. The festival provided a unique platform to discuss critical housing issues like affordability, retrofitting, climate challenges, and accessibility, incorporating a powerful “tenant’s voice” project that not only created a legacy for Ireland, but will be incorporated into all future ISHFs around the world.
ISHF Oral History Project Audio Files
This project collected six stories on the lived experience in social and authority housing in Ireland in order to begin a repository of such tales. The project recorded face-to-face interviews with residents in these communities at some point in their lives. These interviews have been preserved as a permanent resource on the International Social Housing Festival website.
Listen to the Oral History Project here
UPDATE: AUGUST 2026
International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) 2025 has been selected as a finalist for the $20,000 Main Grant of the 2026 Incredible Impacts Programme, an initiative co-founded by ICCA and BestCities Global Alliance in 2017 to recognise and support international association meetings that create positive societal impact and lasting legacies beyond tourism. The three finalists will present their projects during a plenary session at the 2026 ICCA Congress in Panama City this November.
The ISHF submission can be viewed here:
