Shrink private rental sector and increase social housing, says Sinn Féin

The Dublin Mid-West TD also calls for a three-year ban on rent increases across the country

Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing, Eoin Ó Broin, said there has been a massive increase in private rental properties in the last two decades. File photo: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

The existing private rental sector needs to shrink and more people need to live in social housing, Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin has said.

As part of their submission to the Government’s review of the private rental sector, Mr Ó Broin says that the sector has “grown too fast and too large” in recent decades.