Sir, – I write as a homeless citizen in my late 30s. My father had a house, a car and three children when he was my age.
The Irish capitalist system has failed my generation when it comes to housing rights. The laissez-faire housing strategy has failed us.
I call for a bailout of the sizeable homeless population of Ireland and the urgent utilisation of State power to act as social entrepreneur in resolving inequality of conditions as far as housing is concerned.
Only the bypass of market forces can resolve the situation. We cannot wait any longer for social justice. – Yours, etc,
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GAVIN BUSHE,
Clondalkin, Dublin 22.