Defending the indefensible on evictions – redux

Gerard Howlin writes in The Irish Times in defence of the lifting of the eviction ban.

Lifting the eviction ban marks the start of the general election campaign. It immediately framed the politics of March.

The Dáil isn’t sitting this week because of St Patrick’s Day. It will be next week before a Sinn Féin motion to retain the ban is debated and voted on. It will be early April before the consequences of the policy change are felt.

There will be no tsunami of evictions, only a drip feed, punctuated by the occasional high-profile ejection from their home of families with few options about where to go. Politically, this will run on and on.

Hold on!

There will be no tsunami of evictions, only a drip feed, punctuated by the occasional high profile ejection from their home of families with no options about where to go.

There –  fixed that for him. 

It’s an interesting piece because it goes around and around, evading a central point. The state has not build social property for many many decades and had no housing policy worth  the name in those many many decades.