@joancooke5 A lot of emotion in my house tonight watching Claire Byrne. My lads working their butts off and might never be able to get a mortgage.

@jacintammurphy It's really dreadful.

@joancooke5 Very True and family breakdowns. Parents often stay in the same home creating toxicity and dysfunction damaging their children and their perspectives on healthy relationships because they've no other options.

@Alpha_2020_No1 Agree. I witnessed that scenario many times.

@joancooke5 Divorced people too.

@joannie67 I am one of those.

@joancooke5 Single people are exclude from much more than this. When you suddenly become single, it's amazing the amount of doors that close in your face

@MaryCon95516650 That I know speaking as a divorced woman.

@joancooke5 I found Peter Burke extraordinary in his clear view that only houses for conventional families matter, why draw a line like that? And writing off city centers to investment funds? The housing situation is utterly heartbreaking and we will pay a heavy price in the future

@maamvalley There are so many neglected Georgian houses around too which could be converted into lovely spacious apartments .

@joancooke5 many ‘single income’ households are locked out of decent housing in cities, & it includes single people, single parents, families with disabilities, & those with caring responsibilities

@Orla_Hegarty And pay more taxes according to an article in today's @IrishTimes

@joancooke5 Plus they always talk of first time buyers as a divorced woman mid 40s with a reasonable job but divorced house sold mid crash so no equity released... I'll never afford to buy again.

@ui_carla Best of luck Carla.

@joancooke5 Absolutely well said Joan it’s dreadful! And definitely their choice

@CathCorkery An equal right to choose. An equal right to housing.

@joancooke5 So true Joan.

@joancooke5 @bberrybeth365 Yep. As a 50yr old single woman with no family or children & a basic income I might as well not exist, as not one part of any system of society considers my existence worthless. You're constantly penalised as a singleton, don't even get me started on single supplement holidays!

@joancooke5 I had a lot of miserable more-or-less-old-woman and also single gripes about the lack of consideration for those who live alone in Covid’s precautionary measures too ...