Daft.ie report: Rising rents pushing people into homelessness

Rents are now rising at the fastest rate on record as social campaigners warn that “spiralling” costs are forcing people into homelessness, writes Conall Ó Fátharta of the Irish Examiner.

According to the Daft.ie rental price report for the last quarter of 2016, rents rose nationally by 13.5% in the year to December — the largest annual increase in rents ever recorded by Daft, which extends back to 2002.