How will Ireland be able to deliver the homes it needs over the next decade and longer? In my last piece, I outlined the headline findings from a new study on housing supply that I have co-authored with my colleague Maximilian Günnewig-Mönert. The core finding was that, based on the last half-century, housing supply is very well explained by the difference between prices and costs. In particular, the patterns of the last five decades suggest that to increase supply by even 50 per cent – from roughly 20,000 homes to 30,000 homes per year – either prices, both sale and…

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