Galway Advertiser 1973/1973_10_18/GA_18101973_E1_005.pdf 

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H O U S E S FOR T H E PEOPLE GAY BYRNE'S remarks about the attitude adopted by Mr. Robert Molloy to the rates question on last Saturday's "Late Late Show" may have been a little unkind. Nevertheless they help to emphasise an important fact about the current housing crisis. Housing our people is, has been made, a political issue and therefore those politicians who have promised to deliver on the matter cannot complain about criticism now that they are failing to do so. Anybody who believed the fine words of the Labour Party, when they were in opposition, on housing got a rude awakening at the week-end. In fact it would seem that housing is rapidly becoming the first main issue on which the new government have run into real trouble. There are implications for the whole economy, and for the important employment which the building trade provides. But above and beyond all that, there are the fundamental issues of the values of our society, and the pius talk we hear so often about the right of each family to decent living conditions. There are two' approaches to the problem. Either you accept that housing is just like any other commodity and that each individual must look after his own problem or you accept -- as the A.C.R.A. members argue -- that housing is as basic a social requirement as bread and must consequently be removed from the normal speculative market where financing is concerned. We do not intend to argue the merits of the two cases here. The problem as we see it is that while the politicians have agreed to intervene in the "free for all" situation and try and strike a balance between the two positions, they have failed to strike a balance which is suitable to the present circumstances. The poor can get local authority housing. The rich can look after themselves. In between there is the vast number of ordinary people who aspire to buy their own house and are at the mercy of the Building Societies. The QUEEN OF THE COUNTY Miss Breda Casserly, CastCo. Galway, winner Mrs. Dennehy, Show politicians, because of the tax-concessions they grant to both Building rooms K. Manager Stephen legar, Queen of the County of the Beauty Contest at LeisureSocieties and individuals in these circumstances, admit some respon Faller Ltd., Galway, pres land, Salthill, Galway. enting the Faller Cup to sibility for the state of the housing market. And as the A.C.R.A spokesmen have pointed out they have thrown some of the lower income groups into the lap of those same Building Societies. A.C.R.A. are quite right to argue therefore that any action they take against the Building Societies is in the political sphere. And they are right to argue that they have to fight the case of the middle-class as surely as they fought the case of the Local Authority tenants -- to which Mr. Tully made considerable concessions in recent months. Add to that some of the alleged abuses in the present Building Society structure and the A.C.R.A. case for an open investigation of the whole field of housing finance seems eminently reasonable.

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