Lessons must be learned to deal with Ireland’s rental crisis

Trying to rebuild the Irish housing market post-crash, by relying on the private sector to provide accommodation as before is akin to not learning the lessons of the two recent Boeing 737 Max airplane crashes, not adapting accordingly, and repeating the mistakes and shortcomings all over again.

So says seasoned Irish chartered surveyor and top property adviser Frank P Ryan, in a just-published book Lessons in Irish Housing, in which he asserts: “We don’t have a housing crisis, we have a rental/apartment crisis.”