Staying in this week?
Via RTE
All this week RTÉ’s Prime Time put the problem of a generation, unaffordable housing, in the spotlight. Housing is an urgent issue that affects everyone, every day. To reflect this, a digitally led project on rte.ie/prime time will host a week of in-depth analysis, data and video content from Monday morning, publishing every day at 7am, as well two dedicated live television programmes.
Meanwhile…
On Thursday, RTÉ Prime Time will also employ the use of augmented reality in studio as they look at home ownership presenting the facts and statistics and the changing demographics.
Can this end well?
Prime Time on Tuesday and Thursday on RTE One at 9.35pm.
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Nobody does ‘augmented reality’ like rte, in fairness…
and nobody does augmented realty like ireland.
It’ll be a soft ball soft soap load of me eye.
There won’t be a mention of social housing provision in the framework of EU free movement.
Or
A squawk about funds buying up Dublin to lease back to councils
Leo and the gang must have been onto them to get their side of the story out there…but you know..make it look, independent lads.
dont throw the baby out with the bathwater.
as someone who will be made homeless in 16 days, the housing crisis has made me sick. no-one seems to really care. housing crisis is referenced by people with homes but without real care.
its so bad that im going to have to involuntarily move from dublin to laois
We also received our notice, landlord decided to exit the rental market and sell the property.
The asking price will be above any sane or affordable level for us.
Also, the houses in this and neighbouring estates are not in a prime condition. In a best case, whoever buys them will need to invest 50-80k to get them to a decent level.
And in a radius of 5 km around us there are only a few homes with a price tag below 390k.
In several of those there are obvious damages to floors and/or walls that must be reparied before moving in.
I still don’t understand why landlords did not use tax incentives and fix or improve propeties that they were renting. Why everything needs to completely fall apart before it gets fixed.
In case of Dublin and its commuting zone, if a bank takes 20-25% in interest rates on top of 400k mortgage, and if you need to invest extra 80k for fixes, you’ll in the end pay over half a million euro for a small 3-bed semi-d.
Let that settle-in. Half a million euro. For a cardboard shoebox.
Who in a right mind would do that?
Why are planners and senior civil servants ’round ‘ere so focused on copying every ridicuolus thing that Yanks or Brits already failed on?
Another thing that I don’t understand is why the ordinary people are quiet.
More and more young adults in their 20-es are moving back to their parents becuse they can not afford the rent. “Fancy a ride? Can’t. My mum and dad will hear us.”
When USA and Oz open their borders in the next couple of months, another young generation will leave.
Several of my co-workers are doing long inter-county commute to get to work. During the peak rush hour they loose about 1 to 1.5 hours in one direction. This means that they are spending 11 to 12 hours away from their homes. Don’t mention the additional strain on family relationships because of that.
Seeing your partners and kids for maximum 2 hours every day before zoning-out and repeating the same thing the next day. Is it really worth it? Really?
It seems that I’m just a dumb foreigner, I don’t understand a lot of things here, and why are the people just accepting them being that way.
It’s because people are beat down with the ignorant stick. A poor education system that prizes ignorance and an ingrained culture of drunkenness, drug taking and slovenly behaviour presided over by a molly coddled elite and a conservative Tommy Hilfiger jumper wearing middle class dressed by their wives.
Where are you from? I’m guessing Sweden
No. From a place half-way between Middle-Earth and Mordor.
Nords have prettier women, better jobs and welfare filled with riches that you Hibernians can not imagine. But their Law of Jante seemed too cold for us.
Well that narrows it down.
I love the oul Jantelov myself.
When you get that with allmansratt you have a winning combination