With a general election looming ever closer, the Government must finally address the decade-long housing crisis created and presided over by its two main coalition partners
Sinn Féin labels housing a ‘social disaster’ while promising biggest ever public housing programme if electedA 30.6 per cent year-on-year increase in new-home commencements may look like a lot, but it’s coming from a low base.
While we must make room for both a professionally run rental sector and for social housing, we have a serious problem when the buying power of their respective purchasers, institutional investors and the State serves to curtail or drive up the price of the new homes available to those looking to buy on the open market.
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