Jaysus.
Michelle Wickham tweetz:
This is a room for rent in Ballsbridge [Dublin 4]. E500 a month. I asked to view it and this is what I was sent. This has to be illegal. No windows. It’s a f**king closet. Leo Varadkar what’s the craic?
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I’m sure someone will come along to tell us that they rented a room like this when they first started out and it didn’t do them any harm.
I’m sure we’ll have someone along to draw an equivalence between the a windowless cell like the above, and a normal house that’s using a living room as an extra bedroom.
Morning Rob ;)
Or “if you want a better room, get a better job. Simple”
Or “Ballsbridge?! What’s wrong with commuting from Letterfrack?”
Or something about landlords leaving the market or tax or something.
I rented a room like this when I was a young fella, as was Leo, and it didn’t do me any harm.
Yes but at least the walls were padded in that room eh?
haha
Snigger
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Oh you’re good.
You wouldn’t want to get leg cramp when an orgy kicks off in it.
Unless Leo Varadkar is the landlord – why reference him?
Dublin City Council are the people to inform.
The Taoiseach leads the government that makes the laws.
And there are laws in place to prevent this. So it is a problem with enforcement.
If we have a post showing a cyclist breaking the law (or indeed a motorist) – should we add “Leo Varadkar what’s the craic?”
Or the current murder trials that take up so much newsprint? “Leo Varadkar what’s the craic?”
Or any other law that is broken? “Leo Varadkar what’s the craic?”
I personally think that the Taoiseach should be called upon to adjudicate in each and every dispute brought to him, no matter how petty, and dispense justice according to the mood that he’s in that day, Imperator-style.
This would make a fantastic song.
nigel will be along shortly
The walls don’t look very, eh, permanent. I reckon someone has subdivided a larger room into 3 or more box rooms with just a bed. Why rent a room out for €800 a month when you can rent out 3 smaller rooms for €500 each?
i lived in a place like that when moved to NY way back. the light switch for 2 others’ bedrooms was in my room – just above my bed. so much power.
That’s nice that you had something to do to pass the time on a lonely evening.
amateurs. you could get a bunk bed in there and double your money.
Thanks blushirts
I’m bookmarking this post so any time my married pals and I fantasize about ditching the wife and kids, getting an apartment and living the bachelor life, I’ll reference this post and we’ll go home and hold the family tight.
I actually know a fella who has forgiven his wandering wife cause he just can’t afford to break up the home
should be illegal on safety issue alone. if a fire started outside that room you’d have nowhere to go. you’d just have to sit there and wait to die. FG will never do anything about the housing crisis as they truly do not believe it’s there job, evident in varadkars comment “minister murphy didnt cause the housing crisis”, they leave everything up to the private market and shrug their shoulders when it goes awry, truly thinking its weird theyre being blamed for it. they do. not. do. any. work. they really don’t. i’ll fight anyone who says they do.
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Pile’em high. That’s the FG way.
Not even room for a crying chair?
Ventilation? You’d suffocate in that.
i’m thinking in a room like that, my morning flatulence would be enough to kill me.
8 years of Fine Gael laissez faire economic policy is what has resulted in this situation. Ireland needs a new government.
A population increase of 280,000+ people in Ireland in the last 8 years, during a recession that stopped credit for building (and brought new-builds to a halt) has resulted in this situation.
The Irish government in the 1970s built 10,000 social housing units a year. At a time when the Irish population was 3million people, and we were one of the poorest countries in Europe.
The Irish government in 2018 built 4000 social housing units. At a time when we have a population of 4.5 million, and are one of the richest countries in Europe.
The state could, and should, be building 15,000 – 20,000 social housing units a year. The only reason it isn’t is down to Fine Gael’s “free market” ideology.
400?
Do you know how were the 10,000 social units built? The FF minister pickup up the phone and got some of his mates to build them. no minimum standards, no services, no shops or busses. Just houses. That went well for all concerned.
We just couldn’t do that today.
I would be delighted if the state were building 1000s of social housing units each year. I’d be delighted if anyone was building 10,000s of houses each year.
He’s an idea. When the potential councillors call to your door for the local elections, ask them to increase the LPT to it’s maximum and ring-fence that money for new local social housing.
You’re full of it. Most of that housing is still occupied today, and was built to the contemporary standards. They were built with shops and frequent bus routes served them. The shops are largely gone now, because people’s habits have changed as car ownership became ubiquitous. Some of those estates may look very unappealing in 2019 but that’s not attributable to the housing stock itself.
Thats absolute nonsense. The social houses built in the 1970s are mostly of far better quality than the Celtic Tiger private sector builds that were subsequently built. And they’re all over the country, in every area – not concentrated all in some ghetto in your mind.
The state can absolutely do it today. The money is there. If the poverty stricken Irish state in the 1970s could do it then the wealthy Irish state in 2018 can absolutely do it.
Fine Gael have just decided not to invest money in social housing, because they’re true believers in the free market fixing everything. Instead Leo would rather give tax cuts to people earning 40k+ p/a. Or waste billions on badly tendered public projects like the broadband plan. Its a conscious choice, and Fine Gael are making it.
This topic been done before. Social housing wasn’t great:
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/08/14/a-history-of-public-housing/
@Zaccone
I’m with you. if we have €3bn “to spare”, it should go to social housing not rural broadband.
At the time land was a lot cheaper, and there was plenty of unemployed workers who could be put to work building.
Now, land is a lot more expensive, and try getting anyone for a building job of any size in the next 6 months
You are aware that the State owns lots of land, on which it could build lots of houses, if it wanted to?
It boils down to choice, FG do not want to build large scale social and affordable communities as it goes against their market driven political beliefs.
You and Cian have some neck when it comes to spinning
Ok. Who is going to build all of this housing?
Let me think…I’m sure it’ll come to me…eh…builders!
Why can’t you accept that it is well within the resources of the State to build social and affordable communities? Stop spinning, no one buys it (aside from Cian)