Change tack - St Vincent de Paul on housing

FOR generations, the Society of St Vincent de Paul has stood between this society’s most vulnerable citizens and the kind of calamity most of us can hardly imagine.

It has been largely apolitical and focussed almost exclusively on the huge challenge it set itself.

However, in its pre-budget submission, which it launched yesterday, the organisation challenged official policy on how the housing crisis might be partially resolved — and it is hard not to agree with their analysis.