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  1. Eamon

    Why young people aren’t smashing the place up is being me. I may be old, but I’m fupping furious over this.

  2. Dr.Fart

    They could change “how bad is the housing crisis?” to “how purposefully manufactured is the housing crisis?”

    .. and Government don’t plan on ever changing it. They admitted as much with the forced pension enrolment scheme.

    1. Zaccone

      Its absolutely purposely manufactured.

      FF and FG spent the better part of a decade in government saying the housing crisis “can’t be fixed over night”. Yet they’ve managed to find accommodation for 20,000+ Ukrainians within a month when the EU forced them to.

      Don’t get me wrong, its fantastic that we’re doing that for the Ukrainians – we absolutely should be on a humanitarian level. But its a huge slap in the face to the 10,000 homeless Irish people who’ve been suffering for years. Clearly if the political desire had been there the problem could have been solved pretty much instantly at any point over the years.

      1. TenPin Terry

        You wait until the next 20,000 come in.
        Or even ten times that number if reports are correct.
        The train of pain is heading towards Disaster Junction and ignoring all the warning signals.
        You have been warned.

        1. Dr.Fart

          also true, Terry. they haven’t prepared logistically at all. We’ve had different politicians pontificate on ways we could house them, but no action. We’ve had charities stretched doing all they can, with no government support. And we’ve had Michael Martin on the news telling us not enough of the public are helping out. I know of people who have tried to get in touch and offer holiday homes and no one got back to them. This Gov has been a very inactive gov for well over a decade, this was always going to happen, they don’t have the skills to jump into action and sort it out. They’ll all just go on prime time, say their little bit, and how we must help, then go home and expect others to do it.

      2. Dr.Fart

        agreed! FF/FG have never placed any value on the poor or homeless. they pretend to for votes, but its clear as day they never did. on top of that there’s business friends who make money off homelessness so they won’t get in the way of that. The refugees are what they’d consider regular people, or real people, as in people with jobs and professions, people gov respect. whereas they don’t respect poor and homeless so they were never guna jump to their aid. Also, if they helped out homeless they wouldnt get a slap on the back from the EU. But yes, it shows they could’ve ended homelessness years ago. They simply didnt want to.

    2. Harry

      I do not get it
      Maybe a tax on empty properties is a must to force landlords both private and property companies to utilise them
      As well as that it’s time rents were tackled
      Maybe I’ve are seeing a return to the days of the absentee landlord and life under the excesses of the British empire around the time of the land wars
      Anyway we are going to see a crash soon and maybe it’s needed to force the housing prices down
      If I had a new mortgage I would be very worried as 2008 is going to repeat its self as nothing was learnt then

    1. Harry

      I think you are right population reduction first by plague then a good old war
      Then a boom in rebuilding

  3. john f

    Tweets are limited to either 75 or 150 characters so I wouldn’t expect a detailed breakdown, but a link to one would be nice.
    Instead, we get a gross simplification, health, education, security , good roads et cetera are also basic human needs. I would argue that those are lacking also. Both sense housing was mentioned. Let’s talk about that first.
    The Green Brigade are going around objecting to every new development that would make people’s lives better and offer some very limited relief to an area’s housing problem. Instead projects that should take one or 2 years are thrown into a bureaucratic nightmare and end up taking 4 or 5 years.
    When I say new developments would provide limited relief. I mean that with increases in numbers of those looking for housing that demands will never fully be met short to medium term. It just wouldn’t be possible to build the required levels of the units.
    The increased demand comes from different sources, we have one of the youngest populations in the OECD, and naturally more people will be looking for their own home. However, by far the biggest factor in increasing the need for housing is immigration. This also affects the demand for other public services.
    But say, hypothetically that all the housing was built tomorrow. Eventually, the wars have to end and people naturally will want to go back to rebuild their homeland. We will be left with a massive oversupply of housing that would pale the Celtic Tiger crash and national debt levels would be higher than ever. With limited funds, health, education and other public services would suffer greatly.
    The problem is a lot more complicated than what can be explained in a simple slogan. What some of the activists are calling for is the end to private property rights. People need to be careful about what they wish for……

  4. K. Cavan

    All attempts at getting Social Housing schemes off the ground had to be run by local government, City & County Councils & that’s were the roadblock formed. Despite us paying tax, in the form of an illigitimate & grossly unfair tax on homes, to these councils, our elected representatives on those bodies, the local councillors, are utterly powerless, the City & County Managers, professional public servants, rule these organisations as their private fiefdoms & cannot be controlled or constrained by central government.
    Very few people are aware of how omnipotent these individuals have been made, accidentally, by attempts to depoliticise areas like land rezoning & how utterly insane some of them are. However incompetent & inefficient our Civil Service is, it’s like a Japanese car factory, compared to the levels of lead-swinging & incompetence in Local Government, dealing with them is a nightmare. Local Government needs it’s reforms reformed, immediately but no government will take on such a task.
    Until then, no meaningful amount of social housing will ever be built in Ireland & none of it will be economically viable.

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