Given the state of the housing market in this country and the fact that it’s increasingly more unaffordable for a single person to buy a place for themselves, would you be open to the idea of living in a ‘Tiny Home’ like the one shown in the video below in order to get onto the property ladder?
I can’t help but feel like this is one of the only practical solutions for the lack of housing for students and single people in Dublin.
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check out ‘big man, tiny homes’ from Cork.
I seen a YouTube video of a Irish company that designed and built small cubes that where done with option of adding on to them as a family grew or financial situation improved. Seemed like a very cool idea.
Seen it along time ago so don’t have the link.
They’ll be blocked by Sinn Féin and PBP for not being family homes. It’s as if there are no single people living in the country.
That video is cool. Seems to suit the chap in it very nicely. I couldn’t live like that myself – I’m not neat enough. But, it’s a nice solution for him and maybe for others.
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Glorified shanty towns or some other catchy parse
>I can’t help but feel like this is one of the only practical solutions for the lack of housing for students and single people in Dublin.
We could just build more apartment buildings with a mix of 1, 2 and 3-bed apartments. Increasing supply of housing is how we resolve this issue. We shouldn’t have to be looking at compromises like “tiny homes” to achieve that.
Yeah 100% with the 1 condition that the microwave oven is swapped for an actual oven. I haven’t used a microwave in years.
“property ladder” Most people buy one home and one for life. I’d rather live in a country where we aren’t assraped by taxes and the cost of living, than live in that shoebox.
I’d prefer we built apartments.
Currently exploring this option for myself. Thanks for posting that ‘Big man tiny homes’ idea.
Hit the big 30 and ended up back with parents because of the covid situation.
We’re on a farm and I have a nice wee site lined up. I want a low impact home avoiding concrete and cement as far as possible, with a small footprint. Don’t plan on having lawns and a tarmac driveway, want the trees, bushes and long grasses coming right up to the windows.
Smaller units sure, 1bed, 2bed, etc.
Not fucking glorified shoe boxes.
The effort of it. Everything requires just one too many additional steps.
Want friends over? Let me fold the bed away, first I have to take the pillows off it and put them in their own little storage unit and pull the table down off the wall after I set this pillar down for it.
I need a shite, can everyone go outside while I step into this closet. I hope you all like microwave meals because that’s all I can cook. It’s been a long day, time to undo all that and pull the bed back out so I can sleep in it. Any fold out bed I’ve ever slept on has been murder.
The tiny homes would just start costing whatever the max mortgage is for first time buyers, and drive up the price of everything else.
I remember going to view steel sheds a couple of years ago and they had these mad Chalets there.
https://www.steeltechsheds.ie/products/garden-rooms/
They were literally little houses! Of course we went into one and walked around. I thought they were the coolest thing ever. As far as I remember they cost about 10k? (could be totally wrong about that)
I’d definitely live in one.
These are great but this sort of thing is hated on this sub. We should have peope build thousands of these in their back gardens and rent them out.
Nah it’s too small for my current situation.
Myself, the missus, and our kid are in a 2 bed end of terrace and feeling cramped already.
Which is why we listed it for sale and are moving into a bigger gaff.
I bought a small 2 bed log cabin second hand on DoneDeal about 4 years ago.
Was up for 15k, haggled him down to 10k, paid 5k for it to be taken down, moved and reassembled.
Came with full heating system, fully furnished with kitchen, bathroom etc.
I was lucky enough to have a small bit of land to put it on (thanks to my parents)
I find it fantastic, it’s warm and heats easily being so small.
I live there on my own, I’m super tidy like OCD tidy so it’s always clean and well organized.
I got a credit union loan for it which is paid off now so I don’t have any bills apart from electricity and heating, best thing I ever done.
I quite like it anyway. Although the toilet is a bit claustrophobic so shitting with the door open would be a deal-breaker for the missus.
And the developers/owners would still manage to rent them out at a price too high for the human ear…
The words “bijou” and “compact” spring to mind.
Would you not be better off buying an old cottage and fixing it up
The high housing prices in Ireland, and especially in Dublin, are artificially created by restricting new development. This phenomenon happens worldwide, it is not specific to Ireland.
The average Ireland home cost could be cut in half if one million new units of normal sized apartments and homes were built. However, this will never happen because the people who already own homes want to keep the price where it is. If it drops, they would lose money. Thus there is a vicious circle of people resisting new construction at the very moment new construction is most desperately needed.
Small property, sure. Tiny house, no thanks.
Yes, would be happy to live in a student room permanently or something of that size. I don’t use much space.
I’d rather the shared accommodation thingy they were suggesting before (think it was called “co-living” or something to that effect – pretty much a hotel with shared communal areas).
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All those opening and closing bits just seems a bit messy and seems like, if you were renting it to people that didn’t actually own it, it would be relatively easily damaged and require constant maintenance.
For students and single people that want to be social, the co-living thing makes more sense (even though it’s pretty grim in general).
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For me personally, I’d not be mad about it, but if i had to live in dublin, and it was the cheapest option available, i wouldn’t say no.
I’m a single man. I want to stay single and I definitely don’t want children, I’m also quite lazy so I wouldn’t want the maintenance of a normal sized house. I love the idea of a tiny house, just as long as it had a proper couch, I couldn’t be doing with them wooden benches with foam cushions as flat as a witches tit you see in some of them.
Honestly, I love that sort of of homes, I’m totally fine with small spaces as long as it’s an open one like in the video and not a tiny corridor with doors on each side.
In fact I’m planning on moving to Ireland in a couple months (that’s why I’m crawling through this reddit, to see how is the situation overall :P) and this is the sort of rents I’m looking for, small studios suited for one person, since I will be alone there.
I’m horrendously disorganised and messy – I won’t say I couldn’t possibly live in a tiny house because that’s ridiculous but it would absolutely be a challenge for me to do so.