Readers' Blog: An official who was dedicated to housing
The housing crisis was reflected in the 20,000 citizens who marched in Dublin recently.
Around the same time, I read a new article on Herbie Simms, who knew all about housing people and families in his 16 years as leading architect in Dublin Corporation. He worked with the chief city architect, Horace O’Rourke, to design and build homes for the vulnerable through the 1920s to 1940s.
