Letters to the Editor: No place for populism in solution to housing crisis

Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty was wrong to claim the Government had voted to make people homeless, says one correspondent.

Some balance needs to be brought to the discussion over the past number of weeks about the lifting of the eviction ban. Sinn Féin deputy leader Pearse Doherty’s claim that the “Government had voted to make people homeless” is just a step too far. I do not have any party allegiance but nobody in government votes to make people homeless. The media and politicians, particularly the opposition politicians, have been populist and unbalanced during this period.

I am a small landlord, having purchased an apartment with a view to: (i) providing either a pension in later life or (ii) to have a future home for one of our children.