Rory Hearne: The Social contract in Ireland for housing is broken

Philosophy must change to treat rental housing as home, Rory Hearne writes as part of the Irish Examiner's series on youth unemployment 

The housing crisis, which results from housing policy failure of successive Governments, is robbing a generation of their adulthood, and even their future. Picture: Dan Linehan

The social contract in Ireland for housing is broken.

A generation is stuck in unaffordable and insecure rental housing or living at home as adults with their parents.