Irish Examiner view: Ukraine situation highlights the savage reality of Ireland's housing crisis

Ireland needs to build at least 33,000 homes a year just to meet domestic demand. And then there's climate change ...

79-year-old Adam Petrovsky, centre, arriving at the Kingsley Hotel in Cork with his grandson Hlib and his wife Halyna under the Safe Harbour for Ukraine project. Picture: Michael MacSweeney/Provision

The fact that thousands of Ukrainian refugees who will shortly be arriving in Ireland will be accommodated initially in tents provides a savage underpinning to the realities of what is becoming a major and very visible crisis for the State.

Ireland needs to build at least 33,000 new homes annually to move towards the requirements created by satisfying domestic demands.