{"podcast":{"title":"The Explainer","slug":"the-explainer-1063834","podcast_index_feed_id":1063834,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66f2a0897a3d63d20ff54509","website_url":"http://thejournal.ie","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66f2a0897a3d63d20ff54509/1765793812580-5cd8fe19-5170-4d0c-8527-121c6e6fa022.jpeg","author":"The Explainer","episode_count":422,"summary":"The Explainer is a weekly podcast from The Journal that takes a deeper look at one big news story you need to know about. What's the background? Why is this in the news? Get the facts behind the story from Ireland's biggest news website. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T04:20:16.018886+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-explainer-1063834"},"episode":{"title":"Why did rents just see a massive increase?","slug":"why-did-rents-just-see-a-massive-increase","published_at":"2026-05-22T11:15:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-explainer-1063834/why-did-rents-just-see-a-massive-increase","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-explainer-1063834","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-explainer/episodes/why-have-rents-just-seen-a-massive-increase","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66f2a0897a3d63d20ff54509/e/6a103ae7d7997e788ca1e8e1/media.mp3","summary":"New figures suggest the rental market could be experiencing historic levels of strain. Rents surged by 4.4% between December and March, marking the largest quarterly increase on record for the Daft.ie series. We’re joined by Michael Byrne, Associate Professor at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin, and author of Beyond Generation Rent, to examine how tied this rise is to recent rent reforms - and what, if anything, could help to reverse the situation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"New figures suggest the rental market could be experiencing historic levels of strain. Rents surged by 4.4% between December and March, marking the l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1432,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-explainer-1063834/episodes/why-did-rents-just-see-a-massive-increase/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-explainer-1063834/why-did-rents-just-see-a-massive-increase.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}