Young people in Ireland forced to live at home amid lack of affordable housing

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20240607-young-people-in-ireland-forced-to-live-at-home-amid-lack-of-affordable-housing

by bubblanthediamond

40 comments

  1. What a shameful situation. And then they complain about low birthrates.

    “Why aren’t young people having children” 🙄

  3. This is not some strange accident it’s a deliberately and long-term engineered result.

    And do remember we could so easily now be 3D printing cheap houses, look at [Kenya](https://www.businessinsider.com/kenya-3d-printed-home-community-photos-2023-3) (~$27,660 for a 600ft^2 2-bed, though that’s probably a fair bit in Kenyan terms) and Japan ([~$37,300](https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-company-3d-printed-tiny-home-for-price-car-photos-2023-9) for a 527ft^2 1-bed). To be fair, there is now [a pilot project underway](https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0515/1449336-3d-printing-technology-used-for-louth-housing-project/). But we supposedly have [an *8 billion* euro surplus](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c88zg586782o)? Assuming €50,000 per dwelling (already actually an overestimate as above with actual modern tech instead of fat pork for the traditional construction firms), that’s potentially ~160,000 social housing units, could be practically giving them away to young couples.

  5. Oddly enough Ireland is one of the front runners in volumetric/modular construction which actually makes it possible to build affordable homes

  8. We thought western life will come to post soviet space but sometimes it looks like it is visa versa.

  9. Well we should call it for what it’s a disease, spreading across the globe.

  10. Must be stressful for young couples moving in together too. If you break up, one of you would have to move out, but it could take months to find a new place.

  13. I live in a town of 18,000 in Ireland and there is not even a room to rent in this town and only a few come up a year. Apartments and houses are so scarce that they never go on the market as they’re snatched up as soon as they’re unoccupied.
    If you walked down the road from where I live in the centre of town, you’d count about 10-15 buildings with 3 to 4 floors each, that have been abandoned for decades and nobody will ever force the owners to renovate them. This is the issue in every town and city in Ireland and our government pretended to do something by coming up with a vacant property tax but the tax is less that what the yearly appreciation is on these properties. Our main streets are falling down throughout the country due to greed and property hoarding and complete inaction by our government who just want to flood the place with refugees with no documentation

  14. There’s at least one article per week about a bad housing situation in every country by a major media outlet. Solutions are simple: restrict foreign investment firms to buy houses, progressive tax depending on number of units owned, strict rent increase control, high tax on unoccupied apartments, more housing units bought by government and dedicated for social housing… We see everywhere such policies are in place, the housing situation improves.
    We need to push our governments and municipalities to implement these measures.

  15. Inequality booming and all the money going to big corps and a few bilionaries…

  16. Western politicians and governments have completely and utterly failed their people, and they wonder why people have so much apathy. They made housing a commodity, put foreign and corporate interests ahead of their own peoples basic needs. Neo liberalism at its finest. Its corruption in white gloves.

  19. This is why Europe is voting right wing.

    Here in NL the left is like: “nooo we can’t build more houses because of to much nitrogen pollution, the climate comes first!”.

    And then they are like: “noooo, refugees are more in need of housing than the native population and we we need more migrants not less!”

  21. It’s time to stop the investment of housing for profit, cap the rent prices, and make it affordable for all lower classes. Fucking end stage capatalisme

  22. The housing crisis is making the young generation so so much resentful most elder people 50+ (dominating the decision-making bodies) do not realize because they do not care. They feel safe because they could buy property early on or are also landlords profitting from the housing crisis.

    They will only realize when Putin decides to invade Europe till deep into Germany (not France because they have nukes but won’t defend Germany and others only themselves according to nuclear doctrine) and when they call the young people to the army most will reject. Why die for a people which made life so miserable and said “fuck you got mine you lazy ass”. Nobody will defend this societies consisting mostly of old people where housing became unaffordable and too late they will realize when no functioning army brigade can be assembled.

  23. The entire world needs to go on a rent strike, this is ridiculous.

  24. ” im never having children and im never getting married because i just cant save enough to afford it because im too busy paying my parents rent money , thanks economy.”

  26. This is not news this has been the state of affairs for nearly a decade.

  28. And the government still isn’t going to do anything about the mass immigration

  29. Quick, import more immigrants that hate your values! That will solve everything!

  31. The Irish government has fucked Ireland badly. They’ve taken in huge amounts of refugees and asylum seekers and have provided them accommodation at a time that there isn’t anywhere near enough accommodation for the Irish people. It’s only a small country.

  32. Welcome to first world problems. Where housing is impossible to buy unless you bend for the banks. All hail capitalism and bend over.

  33. Birthday rates below replacement levels , but growing population taking up the homes .

  35. This isn’t a Ireland problem. This is a European problem right now..

  36. Welcome to the US, I mean Ireland, it’s the same everywhere

  37. Time is limited for many of us too, with mica affecting loads of homes (including my own) in the west and northwest

  38. It is similar in many countries in the world, it is not lack of housing that is the problem. It is that the wages has not followed housing prices.

    Same in Norway soon.

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