Fionn Kelleher, a 26-year-old IT worker in Cork, pays €1,100 monthly for a one-bedroom apartment in a Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) and views this as a lesser evil in a broken rental market. While he supports the RPZ expansion, he believes it's insufficient to tackle the housing crisis. Kelleher criticizes the government's failure to invest in public housing and points out the absurdity of excluding new-build apartments from RPZs, thus favoring landlords. He describes the stressful experience of apartment hunting, highlighting the lack of options available for renters.
"I've lived here for a few years now, so it's cheaper than it would be if I went to rent it today. It would be at least €200 more if it was to be reset to market rent."
"They're just a Band-Aid. It's not going to solve the housing crisis... my overall take on this is that the Government needs to be investing in public housing, which it's not really doing at the scale that we need."
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