On a sunny spring morning, Talina Hendrick and I sat down on a bench in the garden under the balconies of Dominick Hall, the latest addition to Dublin City Council’s social housing stock. As we took in the residents-only green space suspended at first-floor level, I asked her how she felt about the apartment she had just moved into, a new chapter in the 27 years she has lived in the Dominick Street council flats. “In one word: Heaven,” Hendrick replied. “I feel I’m living in a five-star hotel. We had no space. It’s all so much better.”  As I…

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