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Eoin Ó Broin - Why the government doesn’t want to fix the housing crisis

Eoin Ó Broin - Why the government doesn’t want to fix the housing crisis

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In 1948, Herbert Simms, under increasing pressure from the demands of his job, took his own life.

The pressure came from his job as Dublin’s housing architect. Between 1932 and the time of his death, Simms was responsible for building 17,000 homes for the ordinary people of Dublin.

On Free State today Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson Eoin O Broin talks about his beautiful new book on Simms, produced in conjunction with the photographer Mal McCann.

He looks at how Simms transformed the city and suburbs with a vision and an ideology that placed communities first. He explains too why the same could happen today and why the question shouldn’t be could it happen but why isn’t it happening?

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