Today’s Irish Independent front page

Housing Crisis Forces 10,000 A Month To Rent (irish Independent)

However….

C writes:

I got onto PRTB and they said the figures quoted in 2013 reflects the number of “tenants” listed on a registration application form. However, this “tenants figure” generally represents only the named parties in a tenancy agreement with contractual responsibility for that tenancy and does not reflect the actual number of people living in the private rental sector, e.g. it generally would not include minors under the age of 18.

During 2014, the PRTB introduced a new statistic based on the number of “occupants” listed on the registration application form (see above). The PRTB believe the “Occupants” figure gives a truer picture of the numbers residing in the private rental sector. Do you see what the newspaper did so?