Eoin OSullivan reveals Phenomenal growth in expenditure on private emergency accom @FocusIreland lunchtime talk pic.twitter.com/2sWL9WAIAw
— Mike Allen (@MikeAllenFI) November 16, 2016
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Everything. As It Happens.
Build. more. homes.
And stop residents associations kicking up a stink every time a tiny amount of social housing is proposed near their existing places. Everyone needs to be housed. Snobbery, nimbyism has created a socially divided city.
There’ll be no more big social houses estates, they will be mixed in which is as it should be.
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+1: it’s nice to have a mix!
I don’t think its snobbery. It’s more “I paid €500k for my house and the family next door got if for free” attitude. Which is kinda understandable
No, it’s not
Why not?
Nationalise all vulture fund domestic property, that should cover the outstanding taxes they owe on the profits they make in this country
Expropriation of property assets doesn’t have a great past or present, dav, to say nothing of the fact that every line of credit we have would be forfeit.
oops..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Land_Commission
“The Irish Land Commission (or simply Land Commission) was created in 1881 as a rent fixing commission by the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881, also known as the second Irish Land Act. For a century it was the body responsible for re-distributing farmland in most of Ireland.”
There is enough derelict property and absentee landlords/owners letting them go to sh1t3 to address the whole housing problem in Ireland. (some rich families in London don’t even know they own the property it has been reported!)
During the boom evey development had a requirement for social and affordable housing to be included. In their wisdom the local authorities allowed developers 2 “outs”. If they refused to include S&A units they could (a) provide them elsewhere in other, less lucrative, developments or (b) pay a contribution to the local authority to allow the local authority to build S&A units. I’d love to know what happened in those cases
I was involved in a community building project during the boom. We wanted to build affordable and social housing, but the local authority insisted we had to pay the charge, meaning we couldn’t afford to. No idea if any of that money was actually spent on housing anywhere.