Much hoped for housing budget failed to materialise
At a time when the social and affordable housing crisis is deepening and public anger is rising, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil saw fit to increase the capital budget on housing by a mere 6.5 per cent
Budget 2019 could have been a game-changer on the housing front. After weeks of protests culminating in the massive Raise the Roof rally at the Dáil on October 3, expectation was high. The passing of the cross-party housing motion on the same day calling for an extra €1 billion capital spend on housing felt significant.
Yet as we absorbed the figures on Tuesday, it soon became clear that little was going to change. ...
