Right policies robustly implemented can solve housing crisis

Measures to stop land hoarding, create a more efficient planning system, and greater access to information, would start addressing the issue, writes Kieran Rose

Housing and homelessness have become a key issue in public discourse and in the recent election, and must from a core part of the negotiations of all parties and TDs for the next programme for government.

There are many solutions proposed to the crisis but real action from government moves at a snail’s pace. These problems are not inevitable — if we have the right policies and implement them robustly, we can sort out these issues as many other countries have.