I lost all respect for Ruane when she went off on holiday and offered “life hacks” on how to avoid wearing masks on the plane, but she raises an interesting point here.
Even with two parents who earn a decent salary, raising our children is difficult and we’re very lucky to have our family support network nearby. I can’t even imagine how hard it must be for struggling parents, especially single parents, to manage without their own family.
Most of us need a support system in place, especially if you have kids and even more so if you’re a working parent.
I really understand people not accepting social housing miles away from that support.
It’s hard being a parent, single or otherwise and a lot of us need our mothers or fathers help.
I know nothing about how it works but could we not have it so people can put themselves into categories. E.g. Category A: I’ll take anything, anywhere. Category B: I need to be in X location, with Z facilities, and Y no of rooms.
When gaffs come up just go from the top of the list down and if it matches the persons category give them it?
The problem with this is a purely political one.
There’s huge resentment bubbling under in Ireland – even in this subreddit – about perceptions that people on the Dole/people in social housing have it easy.
This subreddit has been noticeable in its shift towards demanding more access to owner-occupied housing rather than a demand for more social housing in recent months, as an example of that.
For a great many people, employment forces them away from where they grew up. If people who are perceived as lazy or workshy are seen as benefiting from the housing system at the expense of people who have moved away from home for work, there’ll be another political shitstorm.
So governments will keep fudging the issue of housing for single mothers – probably the weakest and most unpopular group in the country if you measure the two together.
There’s a lot of unnecessary intellectualising here. I think everyone can understand the need to be near a support network, this isn’t limited to the urban working class. Those with more resources can obviously pay for childcare, elder care, etc., but there are plenty of working class people who move from declining areas in rural Ireland for work and understand this as well as anyone from the urban working class.
Ultimately there aren’t easy solutions. For the urban working class we simply need to build considerably more housing than we are currently doing if we want people to be able to stay in their communities. For the rural working class the problem is much harder, remote working can certainly help and hopefully regenerate areas in rural Ireland.
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I lost all respect for Ruane when she went off on holiday and offered “life hacks” on how to avoid wearing masks on the plane, but she raises an interesting point here.
Even with two parents who earn a decent salary, raising our children is difficult and we’re very lucky to have our family support network nearby. I can’t even imagine how hard it must be for struggling parents, especially single parents, to manage without their own family.
Most of us need a support system in place, especially if you have kids and even more so if you’re a working parent.
I really understand people not accepting social housing miles away from that support.
It’s hard being a parent, single or otherwise and a lot of us need our mothers or fathers help.
I know nothing about how it works but could we not have it so people can put themselves into categories. E.g. Category A: I’ll take anything, anywhere. Category B: I need to be in X location, with Z facilities, and Y no of rooms.
When gaffs come up just go from the top of the list down and if it matches the persons category give them it?
The problem with this is a purely political one.
There’s huge resentment bubbling under in Ireland – even in this subreddit – about perceptions that people on the Dole/people in social housing have it easy.
This subreddit has been noticeable in its shift towards demanding more access to owner-occupied housing rather than a demand for more social housing in recent months, as an example of that.
For a great many people, employment forces them away from where they grew up. If people who are perceived as lazy or workshy are seen as benefiting from the housing system at the expense of people who have moved away from home for work, there’ll be another political shitstorm.
So governments will keep fudging the issue of housing for single mothers – probably the weakest and most unpopular group in the country if you measure the two together.
There’s a lot of unnecessary intellectualising here. I think everyone can understand the need to be near a support network, this isn’t limited to the urban working class. Those with more resources can obviously pay for childcare, elder care, etc., but there are plenty of working class people who move from declining areas in rural Ireland for work and understand this as well as anyone from the urban working class.
Ultimately there aren’t easy solutions. For the urban working class we simply need to build considerably more housing than we are currently doing if we want people to be able to stay in their communities. For the rural working class the problem is much harder, remote working can certainly help and hopefully regenerate areas in rural Ireland.