It is high time that the Government found ways of breaking the stranglehold of developer and builder greed. Martin McDonaldCarrigalineCorkLocal authorities are back buildingMichael Clifford highlighted the ‘lengthening public housing waiting list’ when analysing Housing For All —Strategy is a gentle squeeze when the housing crisis really needs radical action (Irish Examiner, September 4). In fact, public housing waiting lists have fallen to 61,880 households in November 2020, a decrease of 29,720 or 32.4% since Fine Gael’s Rebuilding Ireland started in 2016. In 2019, 428 new public homes were built within South Dublin County Council and 569 new public homes within Dublin City Council — the last full year before public health restrictions. This year, 9,500 new public homes are to be built, an extraordinary increase on only 600 built in 2015 before Rebuilding Ireland.

Source: Irish Examiner September 06, 2021 09:00 UTC