Eviction ban points up central housing bugbear – a chronic shortage of homes
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien speaks at Government Buildings in Dublin, following a conference with housing stakeholders. Photo: Niall Carson
John Downing
So we face into the poisoned politics of eviction – that most emotive word in the Irish political and historical lexicon.
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