Cabin fever: A cheap, eco-friendly response to the housing crisis

Our anachronistic planning laws lag seriously behind European counterparts meaning we are missing out on a cheap and eco-friendly response to the housing crisis, writes Pádraig Hoare
Cabin fever: A cheap, eco-friendly response to the housing crisis

Alan O'Brien and Laurie O'Donnell, both 27, with their dog Púca outside their cabin home on the outskirts of Cork City. 

For Laurie O’Donnell and Alan O’Brien, the solution to the hopeless housing and rental crisis was staring them right in the face.

The 27-year-old couple decided on cabin living, instead of forking out thousands of euro in rent and putting precious funds aside for a mortgage.

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