Major Dublin Housing and Homeless Crisis Protest Slams Government

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no“The housing crisis is now as big a threat to the EU as Russia,” Jaume Collboni, the mayor of Barcelona, recently declared. “We’re running the risk of having the working and middle classes conclude that their democracies are incapable of solving their biggest problem.”It is not hard to see where Collboni is coming from. F…

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Major Dublin housing and homeless crisis protest slams Government

Protesters at a major housing rally in Dublin accused both the Irish Government and Northern Ireland Executive of failing to tackle homelessness and called for urgent all-island action on housing, evictions and emergency accommodation.

Dublin protest slams Government over housing and homeless crisis

Protesters at a major housing rally in Dublin accused both the Irish Government and Northern Ireland Executive of failing to tackle homelessness and called for urgent all-island action on housing, evictions and emergency accommodation.

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