Housing in Ireland isn't a free market. We have had a chronic shortage of housing for decades, but the influx of asylum seekers has put more pressure on it. Ren

Housing in Ireland isn't a free market. We have had a chronic shortage of housing for decades, but the influx of asylum seekers has put more pressure on it. Renters stand in lines half a mile long to view a grotty shoe-box that costs more than a mortgage. But yeah, maybe in other places it's different. Yes, food is a free market right now, and in addition, it's subsidised (well, production is). Wait 20 years though, if climate change driven storms and floods destroy whole crops, that could change things dramatically.