Workers now becoming homeless because of lack of rent control

News of skyrocketing apartment prices and rents in Dublin (Irish Examiner, October 22) will be cold comfort to the rising number of working people falling into homelessness as a result. 

The Government and the media appear united in refusing to discuss rent controls — perhaps many of them are landlords?

In the moral vacuum of our neo-liberal, free-market economy, more people are being consigned to what critic Henry Giroux calls “zones of abandonment and social death, where they become unknowables, with no human rights and no-one accountable for their condition”.

The logic of a profit-driven system is that the cost of socio-economic protections is unjustifiable, but it also means that we have failed in our collective civic responsibility to our fellow citizens.

Maeve Halpin

126 Ranelagh,

Dublin 6