WHAT WE MEAN BY HOME SINN FÉIN HOUSING SPOKESPERSON EOIN Ó BROIN TALKS ABOUT THE NEED FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT IN HOUSING POLICY IN IRELAND, AND HOW TO BRING IT ABOUT.
H
ousing has long been a
the case for a radical shift in thinking about
appropriate infrastructure and services. He
major,
often
how we provide housing, and this is reflected
points out that this is not a new idea; it’s
controversial, political issue
in Sinn Féin’s housing policy, which calls for a
something the Irish State has done in the past
in Ireland, and few politicians
massive local authority building programme,
in areas like Marino in Dublin. However, he says
are regarded as having immersed themselves
which it says will provide affordable, mixed-
changes in financial, and ideological, models
as deeply in the issues as Sinn Féin’s housing
income developments where tenure and
since the 1980s have meant that development
spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin. His 2019 book,
housing types are tailored to the long-term
is “driven by the diktats of finance rather than
Home: Why public housing is the answer, makes
needs
housing need”. The result is the current
and
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of
communities,
backed
up
by
