{"id":379590,"date":"2018-10-04T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T08:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-thousands-protest-growing-housing-shortage-in-ireland\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T08:17:17","slug":"presstv-thousands-protest-growing-housing-shortage-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-thousands-protest-growing-housing-shortage-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Thousands protest growing housing shortage in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of people marched on Ireland&#8217;s parliament on Wednesday in the latest angry protest over a housing shortage that has sparked sharp increases in rental costs and homelessness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Housing has become the number one political issue ahead of a possible election in the coming months and inside the building Prime Minister Leo Varadkar defended his government&#8217;s record, pointing to nearly 20,000 new homes expected to be built this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are limiting factors. There&#8217;s only so much concrete, only so many service sites, only so many construction workers. We&#8217;re ramping up things as quickly as we can,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>While Ireland was left with a surplus of houses after a property crash in 2008, it has come nowhere near providing the number needed to keep up with a rapid economic recovery, with rents in Dublin almost 20 percent above their pre-crisis peak.<\/p>\n<p>While rising, supply is still short of the 35,000 new builds analysts say are needed annually&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/04\/575984\/Thousands-gather-outside-Irish-parliament-to-protest-growing-housing-shortage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people marched on Ireland&#8217;s parliament on Wednesday in the latest angry protest over a housing shortage that has sparked sharp increases in rental costs and homelessness. Housing has become the number one political issue ahead of a possible election in the coming months and inside the building Prime Minister Leo Varadkar defended his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}