Solutions to the housing crisis usually start at the top: more funding, new agencies, new national plans. The Better Planning Alliance is a newly established campaign seeking to improve the planning system in Ireland. It’s coming at the problem from the other end. It asks, what would it take for an ordinary property owner to build more housing on their land? What’s stopping that from happening? Right now, small-scale property development is very far from people’s minds. It’s not something that happens and it’s not something people hear about.  But why don’t they? In many parts of Ireland, a home…

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