Letter to the Editor: We may be sleepwalking into an even deeper housing crisis
Letter writer Liam Burke points out that Ireland was capable of building homes 'with not a bob in the country' — in this instance a new council housing scheme opened in Clonmel, Co Tipperary in June 1933. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive
Former tánaiste Dick Spring was fearful the electorate might “sleepwalk into another five years of the same old same old” — (Irish Examiner, November 25). And he believes that “at the end of it, there will be more alienation, more poverty and hardship, and more unnecessary suffering in a more and more uncertain world”.
Dick Spring’s worst fears could now become a reality, as it now seems very likely that both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will form the next government, and many are not at all convinced that situations will improve over the next few years for the many thousands who cannot afford a house at present.
