Call for State to build apartments for people as current housing policy failing

Tens of thousands of people will not be able to afford their own homes, or access social housing, if government policy continues, a conference on housing has been told.

The conference, in Dublin, also heard that the State needs to directly provide apartments to tackle the crisis.

Lorcan Sirr, a lecturer in housing and urban economics, at Dublin Institute of Technology, issued his warning at the TASC-FEPS annual conference in Croke Park. The conference is focused on the relationship between economic inequality and the housing crisis