Inside the housing cisis: the issue that could cost Leo Varadkar the election

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Tech workers abandoning Dublin due to housing costs, an Airbnb maintenance worker who is himself homeless, and the woman battling to transform Ireland’s swathe of vacant properties into homes. This episode takes an inside look at the housing crisis from the point of view of people facing the hard edge of the issue in different ways. As polls ahead of the election on February 8th indicate Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s chance at a second term may be slipping away as support ebbs towards Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil, Naomi puts the appeal of promises to build social housing in context. This is an episode of Halfpints, the bonus episodes of The Irish Passport podcast we make specially to thank our supporters on Patreon. You can find a whole archive of extra content over at https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook: @PassportIrish.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:43.1	Hello and welcome to half-pints. the bonus episodes of the Irish Passport podcast we make specially to thank our supporters on patreon.com forward slash the Irish passport.
0:48.9	In this episode, I'm delving into some of my reporting from the last 18 months on Ireland's housing crisis and deeply
0:56.3	unequal tech boom to give some context on a key issue of the election, housing.
1:03.7	A couple of polls have shown the left-wing Sinn Féin party enjoying a surge of support ahead of the election.
1:10.4	In fact, one poll by Red Sea and
1:12.6	the Business Post showed Sinn Féin to be the most popular party among the under 40s. Among
1:18.3	under 35s, Sinn Féin had twice the support of any other party. It showed health and housing
1:25.9	to be the most important issues to voters
1:27.8	and that young people thought Sinn Féin was the best choice to tackle the issues.
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