A chara, – Despite high employment and wages, the voters know long-term problems of housing, healthcare and the cost of living are worsening and that a whole generation, including gardaí, nurses, teachers and students, cannot afford to live within reach of their work or education.
A generation can as realistically hope to own or rent their own place as they can hope to go to the moon.
Thousands of citizens, aged between 20 and early middle age, have been unable to move out of home, marry, start a family, or aspire to have anything other than a room in their parents’ home or in a shared house at €1,000-plus per month as their only foreseeable home.
Ireland has never been richer.
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An impoverished government built thousands of publicly owned homes and flats in the 1950s and 1960s.
If it is to save a generation, the next government must do so again. – Yours, etc,
JOHN CRONIN,
Dublin 6W.