Business Post's View
The housing crisis is a failure of both the market and the state
By targeting the cost of buying a home rather than the cost of building one, Sinn Féin is making the same mistake as the government
As a general election approaches, it becomes ever clearer that it will be dominated by the issue of Ireland’s housing crisis. This is understandable.
For at least a decade, successive governments have stumbled from one false start to another to address the most paradoxical legacy of the great crash of 2008-10 – that a country that once had too many homes now has far too few.
