We need to talk about council housing
It’s often seen as a sacred cow, but public housing - whisper it - ought to be reassessed soon
During a housing crisis, it is ever important to examine every aspect of housing. Very few analysts ever look at social housing from the perspective of how we use it currently - and that is a mistake, because within Dublin, where the situation is worst, there are 45,000 homes owned by local authorities.
This comes the same week that we heard we are about to spend €400,000 setting up an ‘Airbnb watch team’ ...
