Housing crisis: Private enterprise, public interest

If we are to solve the housing crisis, the State must lever private finance but also provide adequate infrastructure, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Everything has its cost. The resurgence in business activity across the capital may be more than welcome, but it is being accompanied by a surge in property prices and rental costs as surplus space is absorbed.

Policymakers are scratching their heads as they try to come up with ways to ramp up housing activity in the Greater Dublin area and in other large population centres, primarily Cork and Galway.