Irish Examiner View: Public sector solutions are obvious but so is the bill

The housing crisis was a driver in last month’s game-changing election. Routine cruelties around even finding a home, costs that look like orchestrated exploitation rather than an acceptance that a home is a right and not a crumb from an increasingly over-laden table, energised demand for change. So too did the consequences of poor, last-minute planning caused by an avoidable crisis.

Mind-numbing commutes, overcrowded hospitals and schools, new residential areas without public transport or shops, all fueled a new kind of anger. Despite that, demand for change would have spoken even more loudly had Sinn Féin’s admiration for terrorists not made it impossible for a majority to support them.