One of the bones of contention in the debate around the Irish housing sector currently is whether things are getting better or getting worse. Last autumn, I outlined a few reasons to be cheerful about Irish housing – as well as a couple of reasons to be fearful. In my list of factors pushing the Irish housing system towards greater health was the large number of new rental homes due to be built in the first half of the 2020s. Much ink has been spilled over the last 12 months in particular on whether build-to-rent homes make things better or…