Carlow co-founder of Construction Workers Alliance can see only one solution to housing crisis

The bottom line when it comes to the housing crisis is that local authorities need to start building properly again.

That’s according to the co-founder of the Construction Workers’ Alliance of Ireland and Carlow man, Ned Costigan.

He says that prior to, and during the boom years the average basic cost of building a house was just 70,000 euro and county councils were building homes by the hundreds.

It comes as recent figures have shown the housing crisis is at its worst.

Speaking to KCLR News, Ned says, as far as he can see, there really is only one solution.

Mr Costigan says ‘You’d see a lot of houses built very quickly, if the State, through its local authorities, decided they were going to build them themselves.