A question I’m frequently asked is whether I can see an end to Ireland’s housing crisis. The framing of the question is inherently pessimistic: things are bad and thus the baseline is that they will stay bad. It is certainly the case that, since I started analysing the Irish housing system over 15 years ago, there hasn’t really been a point at which I could declare that the system was in rude health. Indeed, for the majority of that 15-year sentence, I have been reduced to one main message: Ireland is suffering from a housing shortage. The Daft.ie Rental Report…