A chara, – The situation where an increasing flow of families and individuals are being made homeless or mired in poverty because of escalating rents is a scandal of shocking proportions.
It brings to mind the campaign in the 19th century for the “Three Fs” – fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale.
We certainly could do with a campaign around the first two “Fs” today.
Can we challenge the anger and outrage at the social injustices of Ireland today by continuing the protests instigated by the water charges but incorporating a call for fair rent and fixity of tenure also? To shame the Government, which is treating the citizens of Ireland just as callously as a remote government in Westminster did in the 19th century, into taking steps to establish some form of rent control and fixity of tenure? – Is mise,
ANNE HOLOHAN,
Dublin 2.