97% of landlords fail test - End home rental exploitation

It has long been suggested that our obsession with owning our homes is a cultural insecurity left over from the days when we were a colonised people, when the idea of a secure home of your own only existed underneath a gravestone. 

That obsession has endured, so there’s probably more to it than that old story — and indeed there is.

Today’s “damning” report that, of 756 privately-owned rental properties inspected by Cork County Council last year, 733 (97%) failed to reach standards set down in legislation may indicate why.