In the article (paywalled), John Burns-Murdoch looks at both London and Dublin as cases of where regulations painfully limit housebuilding.
Professor Ronan Lyons offers his perspective on how rent controls 'ease pressures for people who already have a home, but they don’t house the people without one ... They manage the impact of scarcity but don’t resolve it, and can even make it worse.'
Professor Ronan Lyons is an internationally recognised expert on housing markets and housing price indices. Since 2004, he has been the author of the Daft.ie Reports, the longest-running sale and rental prices in Ireland.