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The biggest threat to the State could be from a loss of public confidence in the ability to address the challenges we face, especially how we can house the people in a secure, affordable and community enhancing way.
I think most political parties see that as their priority, even if they differ on how it should be achieved.
In the last five years the public housing budget doubled and a range of supports and interventions were introduced, but we are still not on track to delivering the Government’s target of 300,000 new homes by 2030. Not to mention the housing deficit we have as a result of a lost construction decade following the financial crash.
That supply gap has to be closed if Ireland’s 20- and 30-somethings are not to be 40- or 50-something before they get to set up their own home. It has to be done if we are to bring the homeless numbers down and have the right housing in place for people with disabilities. It has to happen for the economy to work in a secure, fair and competitive way.
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