{"id":378476,"date":"2026-04-02T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:59:11","slug":"how-one-wicklow-family-escaped-the-private-rental-squeeze-via-co-operative-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378476\/","title":{"rendered":"How one Wicklow family escaped the private rental squeeze via co-operative housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From living in such cramped rentals they had to eat in the bath tub, to having their own home near family, friends and everything they ever dreamed of, it has been a whirlwind year for Shannon Greene and her young family\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shannon, Gavin and Theo are already well settled in at Altidore Gardens, Newtownmountkennedy since moving in last July.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c2faa3d0-7ca7-4598-b442-db20032b2f0a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Shannon, Gavin and Theo are already well settled in at Altidore Gardens, Newtownmountkennedy since moving in last July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After years of living between family homes and struggling in the private rental market, a couple and their three-year-old child are now settled into their new home, right where they wanted to live, having got the call every family on a housing list dreams of. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Shannon Greene is from Kilcoole and her partner Gavin is from Bray. The couple were desperate to find somewhere local to live, which would be close to their families and make for an ideal location to bring up their son Theo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From living in such cramped rentals they had to eat in the bath tub, to having their own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,807,3662,61,60,4657],"class_list":{"0":"post-378476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-housing","10":"tag-housing-crisis","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-myles-buchanan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}