'It's a constant struggle': the human faces of the housing crisis
Keelin Cox Creed: 'It's only fair to bring a child into a secure home. To not have that is really disheartening'. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
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SUBSCRIBELast week, reporter Ryan O’Rourke, 27, wrote that the buying of houses in bulk by funds to be let out showed that people his age were never going to be able to buy their own homes. Now, Ryan and Shauna Bowers talk to many more people trapped in a similar situation, the human faces of the housing crisis
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