Government yet again tinkering around the edges of the housing crisis with rent pressure zone plans

Housing minister James Browne: The hope is his proposals will overhaul the system in a bid to bring in international investment that will kickstart the building of apartments, particularly in the Dublin area, but it is not looking like a solution at all. File Picture: Brian Lawless/PA
There is no one silver bullet to housing.
The smartest people who know about this industry will continually tell you that there are many, many factors which have to be addressed in order for Ireland's housing market to represent anything one might call functional.