On Thursday 20 November, the European Housing Advisory Board called for “a paradigm shift” to ensure that housing is seen as an essential social and economic infrastructure.
“The first response” is to change the approach by recognising that we are facing “a social crisis” in access to housing, Eamon Ryan, chairman of the body set up in June and a former Irish minister for the environment and transport, told journalists. According to the task force, “we must discourage the...