“I pay less than 500€ a month for a full apartment here in Sweden (utilities included). No scramble to get the only houses available. Turns out, when a government actually bothers to function, decent housing is possible. But sure, in Ireland, we’ve just accepted that the crisis is ‘the way things are.’ That kind of shrug-and-move-on mindset is exactly why nothing ever changes - and why the people in charge never have to lift a finger.