Home Truths: Why a third of all new homes built each year should be social houses — and why the State should be selling them as well as building them
The State needs to sell a few thousand social homes each year in order to solve the housing crisis. Photo: Getty Images — © Getty Images
Mark Keenan
What if a full one third of all the new homes built in Ireland next year were social houses – to be built and held by the State and let out at preferential sub-market rates – to those who cannot afford to buy?
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