Once you're a renter, you're temporary. Once you're a tenant, you can be turned off the land. And so that idea of owning your own land, owning your own home is so huge. It looms so huge in the Irish psyche. You never feel safe unless your home is yours.
Once a country decides its houses are supposed to make everyone rich, it has to keep prices rising forever, which means restricting supply, blocking development, and quietly pricing out each new generation, which works until it doesn't.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
