Tackling Ireland’s housing crisis
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The right to a home has been one that functioning societies have sought to guarantee their citizens since at least the beginning of the social democratic era, which followed the end of World War II.
However, in Ireland it has always been problematic, with vested interests attempting to place their supposed right to own more than enough property before working people’s right to a place of their own.
The current housing and homelessness crisis is once more throwing this contradiction into stark relief. In SIPTU, we are committed to working with all groups that seek alleviate immediate housing needs and are also focused on changing the way property is viewed in our society from merely a source of profit to a public good.
The issue of housing has been a critical social issue since before the foundation of the State. We must commit ourselves to solving this problem, in all its facets, so that future generations of working people can live and raise families in a stable environment. This is the challenge; it is not one that lends itself to simple answers but it is one from which we must not shirk.
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