Never mind critics: shared-equity scheme can help affordable housing Proposal has been subjected to a feeding frenzy of misplaced criticism Mon, May 3, 2021, 05:44 Pat Farrell Listen now 5:12 “Irish cities are highly responsive in terms of supply and . . . there are more than 40,000 outstanding permissions in most cases ready to be acted on.” Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.
The faux outrage generated in relation to a shared-equity approach to housing falls into an all-too-familiar pattern that has come to characterise what should instead be a sober, data-driven and reasoned debate on how we solve one of the biggest social and economic issues of our time. One by one, every considered proposal to deliver more homes for people to live in is shot down in a barrage of criticism.