Listen "Halfpints: Inside the Housing Crisis – the issue that could cost Leo Varadkar the election"
Episode Synopsis
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 O'Leary puts the appeal of promises to build social housing in context.
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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.
Featuring 'Bittersweet' by SYBS.
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