A chara, – Anyone who owns their own home in Ireland knows they are lucky and are probably members of the last generation who will do so.
Many comments by Michael McDowell on the policies and travails of Sinn Féin are well merited.
His dismissal of their housing policy is not (“Sinn Féin’s leaders are not really leaders. They’re more like glove puppets for unseen controllers”, Opinion & Analysis, October 23rd). It would, he says, cause a situation where the Government would end up as landlords, thus failing to meet a basic aspiration of the Irish population to own their own homes.
Is Mr McDowell unaware there is is a whole generation who can as realistically hope to own their own homes as they can hope to go to the moon?
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We all know that thousands, many now in early middle age, have been unable to marry, start a family or have any hope to have accommodation other than a room in their parents’ home or in a shared house at more than ¤1,000 a month for the foreseeable future?
Government and local authorities were well-regarded suppliers and landlords of family homes for citizens in the past and can be again. – Yours, etc,
JOHN CRONIN,
Dublin 6W.