SBP editorial: Building a solution to the rental crisis

Former minister for housing Simon Coveney

If a weighing scales is off balance, the touch of a thumb may work for a short while, but true equilibrium can only be achieved by making sure that neither plate is heavier.

In the Irish rental market the scales are most definitely off-kilter, and the thumb of the state has not done much to fix it.

For proof, we need only look at the report from Daft, the property search website that ...