Letters: Help us older folk downsize instead of just demonising us

Sir — One week on from a well-intentioned ESRI study declaring that 67.3pc of people in the Republic live in homes that are too big for their needs, homeowners of a certain vintage could be forgiven for an unmerited feeling of ­being partially to blame for the housing crisis.

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