Constitutional right to a home won't fix 'broken' housing system, committee told

Home For Good said it was confident the new constitutional amendment should create a 'directly enforceable, standalone right' to housing. File photo: Steve Parsons/PA

Enshrining a right to housing in the Constitution would allow the State to “write a cheque” to make an individual’s housing problem go away, but wouldn’t fix the "broken" housing system, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

However, it also heard inserting a right to housing in the constitution for every citizen is a step that should be taken and would be an opportunity for “us as a people to clearly and boldly enunciate our values”.