New response to housing 'permacrisis' to be explored

Only 30,030 homes were built last year, a long way short of the promised 40,000 homes A bespoke collection of Irish Times journalism exclusively for subscribers featuring previews and the best of the week that was Tomorrow, Ministers are set to gather for a Cabinet committee meeting on housing in a bid to bring new thinking to what is becoming an Irish "permacrisis". The Government is under pressure on this issue. As Jennifer Bray writes this weekend, only 30,030 homes were built last year, a long way short of the promised 40,000 homes, which Government figures were promising in the…