Joyce Fegan: Fixing our great, great housing failure

“We need a mindset shift whereby we collectively believe that everyone deserves a safe place to rest their head at night, regardless of their take-home pay“

Father Peter McVerry during a relaunch of a Raise the Roof Housing campaign in May. It was the first in a series of regional and national public meetings on the housing crisis outside Leinster House on Kildare Street, Dublin.

This is going on so long.

Far from being helpless victims to an out-of-control mind-of-its-own beast, it’s almost as if we have actively created this housing crisis. We’ve been using that word “crisis” going on 10 years and the word has done little to catalyse change.