Elaine Loughlin: Greater good is served by ensuring families cannot be evicted this winter

This country has always had an uneasy relationship between tenant and landlord

We  have been living through a housing, homelessness, and rental crisis for more than a decade and yet the issue continues to shock.

A particularly low point came last week when the head of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) suggested renters could simply buy themselves out of their own precarious misery.