Social obligations: Let’s ensure this is the last housing crisis

The announcement yesterday that a €100m scheme will provide more than 1,300 houses in Cork is welcome. The announcement must, however, also provoke a sigh of relief.

A rich country such as this, and one that purports to have a social conscience, should not have a housing shortage like the one eating at the very heart of this society for the last number of years.

That the crisis escalated despite warning after warning, all vindicated, points to an unattractive deafness at government level and a mé féin society too tolerant of life-defining social failure.