A massive movement similar to the anti-water charges campaign must be mobilised “to force Government action on the housing crisis”, a conference heard on Tuesday. He said that since then the department had moved from “managing a system of housing delivery to managing a market. Mel Reynolds, an architect and housing policy expert, said one of the “greatest myths” promoted by the department was that increasing housing supply would bring down prices. In housing, supply follows price. He was concerned many of the groups the trust worked with – people with mental health, physical health and other issues – were being “designed out of” the housing market.

Source: The Irish Times January 23, 2018 19:18 UTC