A recent ESRI report by Barra Roantree and co-authors gives a detailed portrait of the rental sector in Ireland, as of the early 2020s. The report, entitled “Low Income Renters and Housing Supports”, is the just type of policy analysis that countries like Ireland need to diagnose issues and inform public policy. It combines information from Censuses back to 1991 with data from the Survey of Income & Living Conditions and other official reports to provide a wealth of information on how renting, whether supported or not, has evolved over the last three decades. The dramatic rise in the number…