News emerged last week that cabinet ministers were briefed that tens of thousands of additional new homes will be needed this decade. The report, a top story in The Irish Times on Wednesday, was based on an ESRI analysis given to the Cabinet Committee on Housing. For those of us who have been arguing, for over a decade now, that the principal thing wrong with Ireland’s housing system is a shortage of housing, the fact that policymakers might – even belatedly – be upping housing targets is of course welcome. Over the last 10 years, the idea that Ireland had…

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