Middle-and-upper-middle income earners face housing affordability issues

The Parliamentary Budget Office said the Government’s Housing for All targets are vastly underestimating demand.

A significant proportion of middle-and-upper-middle income earners face affordability issues when it comes to buying a home in Ireland, a new report has said.

And, even couples earning the average wage struggle to buy in Dublin, its commuter belt, and to a lesser extent Cork and Galway, according to a new analysis from the Government’s independent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO).