Social housing need in Ireland has undergone, it’s fair to say, dramatic change over the course of the past decade, an examination of the available data most notably revealing that the proportion of non-European nationals on waiting lists hit a record level last year.
Even as the number of Irish nationals on the waiting list fell back to 2017-levels (72 percent), which itself was only one-percent removed from 2016 (71 percent) and two percent from 2013 (70 percent), the number of non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals on the wait list ballooned to 12 percent – the highest it’s ever been, rivalled only by 2008’s 11 percent, as best this writer can tell.
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