"Sex for rent, cameras in the kitchen, social housing for Ryanair pilots. What happens when the housing crisis gets out of control? The result can be seen in Ireland."
by 41stshade
"Sex for rent, cameras in the kitchen, social housing for Ryanair pilots. What happens when the housing crisis gets out of control? The result can be seen in Ireland."
by 41stshade
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The housing situation in Ireland is pretty well-known in Europe. It’s also not unique- things are pretty dire in the Netherlands atm too.
Would say nothing happening government is doing well as they said. Last 15 years they fighting housing crisis 🧐
Funny, they failed to mention how the Germans decided to lump the Irish with the lions share of debts accruing from the European banking collapse and the effect that had on construction output…
It’s grim all right, hey!
Hasn’t anyone told them that Simon Harris is about to be Taoiseach and will fix everything?
You need to curtail immigration.
Anyone who claims to have the solution without limiting immigration is simply lying.
No matter how much you build, if immigration increases demand beyond supply, then the problem will get worse.
The solution lies with ***BOTH*** supply and demand. Not just supply.
From start to finish that article is fucking grim.
And people will still block developments and claim there is no crisis.
Fuck you Fine Gael.
It seems like it’s a bit of a runaway mess at this stage. A lot of it dates from the post 2010 crash. I just feel like I should have emigrated around then, rather than holding on. It feels like we are inflating our way towards another mess – just drifting without a plan.
Calm down Europe this can’t be fixed overnight. /s
Things can’t change unless there’s a drastic change in how the country is run and by whom. That’s not going to happen when all our political parties, media, lobby groups ect are singing off the same hymn sheet.
Not sure it can escalate more than it already has. Its been a crisis since at least 2014 and we have been complaining ever since to deaf ears.
It’s a housing crisis that is common to all English speaking first world major cities.
I can see an ill planned and poorly executed social housing boom.
Think of the poor estates built in the 70s and 80s getting repeated.
€2,000 for a Studio Apartment
Living space in exchange for sex, cameras in the kitchen, and social housing estates for Ryanair pilots: What happens when the housing crisis spirals out of control? This can be observed in Ireland.
Reported from Dublin by Jan Petter
April 2, 2024, 12:01 PM
Article to Listen to•10 Min
Despite being notoriously stingy with providing decent seating for his paying customers, Michael O’Leary has been surprisingly generous to his employees. The Ryanair CEO regularly shocks with ideas on how to further squeeze passengers: removing seats, charging for toilets, gambling onboard. And now this: 25 new brick houses as a gift to his staff.
It’s a kind of private social housing estate, built for many millions of euros on the outskirts of Dublin. Just one stop from the airport. During a visit in mid-March, Portuguese laurel and Christmas roses bloomed in the front gardens, and through the large windows, empty kitchens and softly cushioned chairs could be seen. New starters at Ryanair can soon live here at a discounted rate. It’s an astonishing leg up for young crew members. And an admission: Dublin has become so expensive that even pilots can no longer afford to live here without assistance.
In Ireland, the consequences of an escalating housing crisis are visible: Since 2013, rents in the city have approximately doubled. The average rental price for a new studio apartment is currently about €2,000 per month. The consultancy firm Deloitte recently named Dublin’s rental market the most expensive in Europe. Even the middle class is now threatened; thousands of families are homeless. The number of emigrations, long a measure of the country’s problems, has significantly increased.
Young people are particularly affected: Two-thirds of all Dublin residents under 35 still live with their parents. Many have long given up on finding a shared room or even a rental apartment. Like Mark Dunne, a 19-year-old aspiring teacher who commutes three hours from the suburbs to university every day. He squeezes past his parents in the kitchen every morning, waits in front of the bathroom, then travels to university. He does not expect his situation to change in the coming years. Almost all of his friends and acquaintances live the same way, even those who are older and pursuing master’s degrees or PhDs. Spontaneous visits, dates? Only possible outside or under the watchful eyes of mom and dad.
“The housing crisis is the biggest domestic issue of our time. The fact that it’s not being solved affects the younger generations. The anger is growing,” says Rory Hearne, an associate professor of social policy who has been observing Irish housing policy for nearly two decades. His analysis: It’s not the millennials who are becoming increasingly radicalized, but the conditions in which they live. Housing ranks as the population’s most important concern in surveys, even above inflation and migration. This is because the housing crisis affects not just the young but the entire structure of society: Older Irish people must share their houses with family members and cannot sell them, undermining their retirement plans. How did it come to this?
For the crisis, Hearne sees structural reasons. Unlike countries such as Germany or the Netherlands, Ireland has long relied on homeownership. It has been the self-understanding of generations that one either built or bought a house; however, for younger people, this is no longer an option due to rising costs.
Meanwhile, the rental market is largely deregulated: Ireland still has no law specifically listing the rights of tenants. Not even a register of occupied buildings and their owners exists. Apartments are first and foremost someone’s property. A matter of private law.
During the boom phases of the eighties, nineties, and early 2000s, Ireland became an IT and service paradise, with international companies entering the country because of tax advantages. They did not create affordable living space. Today, most apartments are owned by private small landlords – or large international real estate funds, which work strictly for profit. The construction of social housing, on the other hand, has been neglected by governments over the past decades, even reducing the mandatory share in construction projects. Instead of building or buying social housing for this purpose, they were persuaded to lease apartments at high prices for decades. A “political failure,” according to Hearne. Even a government emergency measure no longer helps much: The poorest now receive a state rental subsidy of 25 percent. But what does that matter if costs rise annually?
The effects of uncontrolled housing policy are partly dramatic: Last year, despite record employment, Ireland counted 3,900 homeless families, more than during the Great Famine in the 19th century. A new record. The aid organization Threshold used to cater to single men, often with drug problems – today, it’s young people, families, and migrant workers. “The biggest risk for homelessness in Ireland is a rental apartment,” says CEO John Mark McCafferty. “The problem cuts across all layers
No you can’t talk about this, it’s hateful and discriminatory language, mods let’s take it down and stop this anti-government talk
So what do the “all of Europe has a housing crisis, we’re no different” brigade pivot to next?
Pot holes everywhere, street lights not working, explosion in homelessness, Irish being forced abroad, 20 something’s living with their parents. What kind of utter buffoons are in charge.
They don’t care what the Irish people say but maybe shaming them in Europe is the only way they’ll change.
The Ryanair houses are for Cabin Crew, not Pilots. You don’t need to lie to demonstrate how bad the housing crisis is.
60%+ of renters are now relying on some government support. How in god’s name has it been allowed get this bad.
Enda Kenny made some empty promise 12years ago that they’d fix the housing. It’s gotten 5X worse.
Oh no, the Germans have noticed we’re fuckups. Again
They’ll just be smug about it. Relax. Nothing will change.
More families homes than during the great famine.
That says a lot then doesn’t it.
Why is Ireland so unwilling to move faster n resolving those problems ?
It’s not like it’s a budget issue! But it feels like the motto is to not act unless you have an actual fire in place !
I’ve rarely seen a country being so slow in terms of legislation and taking decision !
They were fast with the 8€ minimum spending in pub during covid …
Landlords are getting richer with each passing week – many of these landlords are Fine Gael people so everyone should be happy 💰💰💰
I still don’t get how in Ireland the monthly mortgage payments for homeowners are less than rent payments. Sure sign of a broken market. Rent should be way lower.
It is more like 2500 than 2000 eur for one bedroom.
Rent in London is 30% higher on average than in Dublin. They aren’t talking about that.
No mention at all of the effects of the bailout and German led austerity. Interesting from a German paper
I think it’s time for that once a century landlord culling 👍