This might be Cyprus’ best housing idea – so why is no-one using it?

It’s so rare for a government scheme to be an unqualified Good Thing that it feels downright ungrateful to criticise it. Then again, even Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, speaking last February, admitted that the Renovate-Rent housing scheme was underperforming relative to expectations. The hope was for 1,000 housing units to…