Freeing up land is the first step in solving our housing crisis

Take a walk down Abbey Street past the Jervis Center — itself a converted hospital — towards Heuston Station in Dublin.

Once at Heuston circle back on yourself and come back up the quays, the north quays in particular.

I have been travelling this route, along that axis, since the late 1990s when we moved from leafy south Dublin to ineffably leafier north Kildare.