Stephen Kinsella on Ireland’s generation game
Handwringing on the housing crisis is hypocrisy if you rush to object to every development that might hit the value of your own home
It’s unspoken. Make a list of the problems Ireland has today. Homelessness, housing shortages, health systems creaking at the seams, unbalanced regional development, a large part of the previous generation having emigrated.
Now think about possible solutions to some of those problems. You address the growing problem of homelessness by putting in place measures to solve the complex interconnections between mental health and poverty, by building more houses using taxpayers’ money to house ...