Last week, the European Commission released several country-specific reports detailing the challenges facing EU member states. Considering how badly the Irish homelessness crisis has become in recent years, its contained some grim data about residential investment. While countless families are struggling amid a lack of social housing, Irish residential investment as a share of GDP was 12.3 percent in the period from 2004 to 2007 and that fell to just 2.0 percent by 2017.
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Irish government's policies exacerbating housing crisis
