Séamas O'Reilly: The generational human catastrophe of the housing crisis

"68% of all people between 25 and 29 living with their parents is not just suboptimal on a human level – it signals something deeply, deeply wrong with the way our society is ordered."

Protestors gather outside Dail Eireann in Dublin for a rally highlighting the housing crisis in 2021. Photo: Damien Storan

Eurostat announced last week that 68% of people in their late twenties in Ireland live with their parents. 

This is a statistic so jarring, it bears a closer look.