Speaking on Blindboy podcast Michael D Higgins said market cannot fix crisis by itself and Government has role to play
President Michael D Higgins: 'A home is something into which you have poured intimacies. It is a shared space of security and shelter.' Photograph: MaxwellsThe “best possible way” out of the housing shortfall in Ireland is “the State building houses on State ground”, President Michael D Higgins has said.earlier this week, President Higgins said the market cannot fix the entire housing shortfall by itself and the State has “a role” to play.
There was a preoccupation among Irish people with owning a home, he said, criticising the use of the term “getting on the property ladder” during the housing crisis. “What you need is to have the experience of a home in a house, but it isn’t essential to own it ... We should just actually have a surplus of housing so that you have ones that are available to be filled. And that is possible, and it is possible for that to come to be in the future. I hope it does,” he said to Blindboy, who is a musician, podcaster and author from Limerick.
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