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Richard Curran: Only when the jobs and investment stop flowing will housing be treated as the true emergency it is – and that’s getting closer

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Richard Curran: Only when the jobs and investment stop flowing will housing be treated as the true emergency it is – and that’s getting closer

As long as the Exchequer has the tax revenues to keep the creaking edifice of housing policy standing up, then it won’t receive the emergency treatment it deserves. Cartoon by Graeme Keyes

The latest opinion polls show the electorate doesn’t believe any of the main political parties can really fix the housing crisis. There has been a lack of faith for some time now that the government parties can truly address the scale of the problem in time.

In the past, floating voters looked to Sinn Féin, which appeared to have all of the answers needed to put things right. Its 11-percentage point drop in the polls in just two years suggests confidence has evaporated there too.

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