Sinn Féin calls for end to Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil ‘stranglehold’ on housing

House prices will continue to rise until 2029 if Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael return to power, Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson has said.

Eoin Ó Broin urged voters to end the two Civil War parties’ “stranglehold” on housing policy and called for a greater focus on social and affordable home delivery.

“The reason homelessness is rising is because Simon Harris is Taoiseach, Micheal Martin is Tánaiste and Darragh O’Brien is Minister for Housing,” Mr Ó Broin said at an event at the Teachers Club in Dublin on Saturday.

“If we want to end homelessness, we’ve got to end their stranglehold on housing policy.”

The housing spokesperson said that the proportion of young people who own their home has collapsed compared to the 1990s, from 60 per cent to 30 per cent, and that this was forcing young people to either emigrate or stay at home with their parents.

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