‘I don’t believe Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael have the desire to truly tackle the housing crisis’: How will first-time buyers vote?

by nobodyshome01

22 comments

  1. They don’t have the desire. They’ve had the chance to and decided against fixing this.

  2. Neither party will do anything of the sort they made the crisis. FF and FG want higher house prices and higher rents.

  3. Personally, I don’t know…

    Atm, I genuinely believe that most parties are more concerned about the homeless or social welfare groups rather than people who get up, go to work, and pay taxes.

    Therefore, a portion of houses that will be built will be purchased by the state, and first-time buyers would be competing against the state for a house. I like the idea of change, but sometimes I just find sinn fein a little bit socialist.

  4. I’m sorry to say that anyone who thinks a state run building company will be answer is kidding themselves, it will be nothing more than an Rte for builders.

  5. Eoghan Murphy claims he tried to do something but was shot down. It was on the sub the past few days. [https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/former-housing-minster-eoghan-murphy-claims-his-ambitious-plans-for-homes-were-ambushed-by-senior-figures-in-government/a987720877.html](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/former-housing-minster-eoghan-murphy-claims-his-ambitious-plans-for-homes-were-ambushed-by-senior-figures-in-government/a987720877.html)

  6. As a first time buyer currently looking, FG and FF will be at the very bottom of my ballot.

    We know how FF/FG will handle it. Everyone else deserves a shot to try make things better.

  8. I think that the main problem with housing is the lack of supply. And the best solution to that is to build more but then questions like: where to build, what type of building, social or private, how is it financed, who builds them, how to get them through the planning process and local opposition? come up. And those questions matter more to a whole lot of voters and different parts of society than the housing crisis.

    Anyone who has paid market value for a house in recent years does not want to the see the value of the property go down. Tough, difficult and unpopular decisions are needed to fix the problem, they were needed 10-12 years ago. Whichever of the main parties get in they will have a lot of tough decisions that won’t exactly work they the way they would like.

    Edit: for the record I do think FG has done an absolutely terrible job in relation to housing and FF is not much better.

  9. They’ll vote FFFG because mammy and daddy say so.

  10. Lads just a friendly reminder- if you dont want a vote going to a particular party, dont put anything beside them on the ballot.

  11. I see the conspiracy theorists are out in force today.

    Casual reminder that FF and FG aren’t alone in the slow pacing of housing. Though FG is certainly the worst offender.

    Most housing isn’t done at the national level, it’s done by the local councils – that’s why they’re called “a council house”.

    On the back of the water charges protests, SF won loads of seats on the councils in 2014. And spent 5 years delaying and blocking *every single* house, crèche, new school and school improvements in the country.

    “If we can make people’s lives really hard, maybe we’ll get elected out of frustration”.

    It’d be clever if it wasn’t so dark.

    And then there’s Roderic trying to block the apartments what would block his view from his kitchen.

    I’m in FF (unlike some, I’m upfront about who’s posting) and we sure as hell could have done more during Covid, especially around student accommodation. We caved too much to the fear around Covid, and shutting down the felling industry has cost us 2 years.

    But ultimately it’s all local. Govt can turn on the housing tap as much as it wants but it’s the councils where the hard work happens (or doesn’t happen).

    If you want more housing – and I certainly do, feck the NIMBYs – your vote is better spent at the local elections, not the national elections.

  13. Their desire is simply a reflection of their voters – not true to say they haven’t a desire but equally some of the resolutions proposed to address this crisis would be like their voters shooting themselves in both feet and then reloading the gun….

  14. People before profit I want change and action taken voting for someone with humanity

  15. But realistically Sinn Fein aren’t going to be running the next government unless FFG is wiped out all together. FG aren’t going in with Sinn Fein, FF more than likely wouldn’t from what MM said this week, the Greens and labour are lap dogs to FFG. What’s the point.

  16. The problem is the majority of the population don’t have a desire to solve it. That’s who FF and FG cater for.

  17. We are in a position that housing is the most lucrative investment asset in this country, increasing the supply will negatively impact people’s “investments”

    It won’t be fixed because for the majority it isn’t broken….

  18. Well considering most voters already own homes, the first-timers will be out-numbered by those that vote FF/FG. So it’s not going to matter.

  19. I’m voting SF no1 , PBP no 2, sadly no SD candidate in my area

  20. Solving the housing crisis will put a lot of people into negative equity. They simply won’t do it. Nobody has asked them about it yet either. 

  21. Most are landlords why would they try and tackle a situation that makes them wealthy. Its in their interest to keep the bottle- neck as it is.

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