Painful Housing Shortages in Ireland

While listening to Kamala Harris explain her plans to ease housing shortages, I know things are worse in Ireland.

Ireland’s population is growing faster than predicted because of immigration. According to property firm Savills 3.8 people were added to Ireland’s population for every one new unit of housing delivered between 2015 and 2023, a ratio of nearly four to one.

This is by far the worst of the nine countries analysed, Savills director of research John Ring said. Ireland’s ratio was 80 per cent worse than the UK’s (2. 1) and double that ofAustralia (1.9).

Ireland’s housing shortage is on a different level to others.