We have a housing logjam, but could mortgage insurance help?

There may be a simple solution to boost house-building

Will we ever get this housing crisis sorted? Pic:iStock

Now that the election is behind us and the focus returns to providing real solutions to the most pressing problems facing our country, it will be interesting to see the response from Professor Philip Lane, the governor of the Central Bank, to the last government’s request for a review of the restrictions on mortgage lending.

It is now just over a year since the Central Bank introduced the restrictions, which among other things ...