1923 – Housing shortage

It should scarcely have been thought necessary for the Government to have set up a Departmental Committee to investigate the Increase of Rents (Restrictions) Act for the obvious decision that the committee could have come to was to recommend a continuance of control and this they have done, extending the period of control to 1926.

The conditions that existed during the European war in regard to housing have not only changed but rather have been intensified. The argument in support of control is that the large house shortage has increased rather than diminished.

This was apparent to the average man in the street who oftentimes knows a good deal more about the conditions in the country than the paid politician who affects to know everything.

Here in Galway the housing problem is more acute than in perhaps any other city in Ireland outside Dublin. Whilst the Government, with the limited financial resources at its command, is making a genuine effort to provide the working classes with houses, it does not seem to have entered into the minds of our administrators that a great deal more could be done if a scheme were devised whereby money would be advanced to enterprising private persons of means to carry out the work of reconstruction of existing derelict buildings of which there are great numbers in every town in Ireland.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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