And their also knocking down the almost complete apartments and 40 new homes that they’ve been building on the site in coolock that has half a million quid affordable houses.
Joke shop of a country
How am I not supposed to be resentful towards older and middle aged voters voting for insanely irresponsible housing policy?
By all measures, government housing policy has been a massive failure for several years now.
Martin, Harris and OBrien all campaigned on delivering close to 40,000 homes and now we’ve proof they were lying.
They shouldnt have been let back near government. But at the very least O’Briens position as housing minister is untenable.
I mean most people should be happy with this news. We all got a chance to vote 2 months again and judging by the fact that the majority voted back in the same government who’s policies have led to headlines like this and exasperated the housing crisis most of Ireland support news like this.
Yet people are taken aback when they see us young people are forced to leave the country. The older generation are forcing their own kids and grandkids out of here.
not sure who i find more irritating. the people who directly voted for FF-FG yet again or the people who voted for the obviously-not-independent independents🙄
The only people that didn’t acknowledge that this was going to be the case was the government. Instead they’ve gaslighted the public with ‘commencement’ figures. Shambolic.
Well yeah, we reelected landlord neo-liberals. It’s a feature, not a bug
Living in a new estate, moved in 6 months ago and there’s no one else on our row of houses.
At first I thought that they had sold and people were taking their time, some are.
But after chatting with the foreman it turns out most haven’t sold because of the prices.
We get what we vote for.
Wasn’t there a post here from towards the end of last year where house builds had increased in the final quarter from the previous, and FFG supporters here were patting themselves on the back and downvoting anyone who suggested that that’s just compared to the previous quarter.
Well, here we go. Builds are actually DOWN on 2023, doesn’t matter what individual quarter we look at.
So, my shitbox apartment I overpaid for will just continue to appreciate in value. Everyone told us we spent too much on it, but there has barely been a unit sold in the development for less than we spent since. Where does this stop? The last owner made 70k off us. We’re on track to take as much, if not more, off the next buyer. This is crazy.
No point crying in here lads. The electorate has made it plain as day that they are ok with young people immigrating and not having children. This echo chamber won’t change the minds of FFG voters. Shameful stuff.
Decreasing? Because we were able to match demand? No? Jeez
All going to plan
And going by the Independent.ie, we are getting the same utterly useless housing minister again.
Country is utterly fucked on this issue and about to get way worse
In a year of record breaking immigration.
The problem with housing is everyone saying the housing policies of FF/FG aren’t working when actually they are working and working well and probably above anybody in governments expectations.
Keeping supply low making house prices high, works for the building companies who get to sell for big profits, home owners who wish to sell get to make big profits and those who wish to sit on a house asset feel good because they own an expensive asset, so it’s working for them. Home owners sitting on expensive assets with paid off mortgages tend to be FF/FG voters. They tend to feel those who can’t buy simply aren’t working hard enough, they like Leo’s jibe about those getting up early in the morning, they don’t acknowledge the goal posts have been moved far beyond the average persons reach. Nor does it matter that in a market where individuals are competing against multinational companies able to buy up whole apartment complexs and housing estates is a reality.
The current government housing policy is also paying dividends to the rental market, having little supply keeps rents high. This benefits the landlords in the Dáil, corporate landlords and vulture funds of which the last housing minister Darragh O’Brien was an initial investor.
Both these situations benefit banks and lenders, builders need loans to build, corporations need loans to buy and individuals need mortgages, all pay interest to the banks. Those very same banks the people of Ireland bailed out although our newly elected taoiseach thinks no banks were bailed out, yet they would have failed otherwise, so were in fact bailed out.
The other people benefitting are hotel / BnB / building owners who are housing homeless and homeless families in them and turning buildings into homeless hubs.
In all this mix are those caught up in the rental market stuck paying extortionate rents unable to save and unable to buy. Those stuck in their childhood bedrooms, unable to move out through lack of rfntsls and unable to buy because of sky high prices. And those now living in hotels and bnbs and homeless hubs with unknown consequences to the children who government have told by their actions that they are not worth anything.
But who cares they are just collateral damage in the wider scheme, government don’t care, if they did they would actually do something instead they spin lies, like saying house building is up 87% or so either nonsense figure. Go check out his X account
In every crisis someone is making money and if those making money are the ones at the top why would they change things. So next time someone says the housing market isn’t working please correct them because it is, just not for those in the middle and lower rungs of the ladder. And remind them that with FF/FG voters keeping the status quo, they are just as culpable for this situation as government ministers. FF/FG are do desperate to cling power these two usually in opposition of each other would rather merge into one than allow change.
Well surprise sur-fucking-prise.
The Dáil landlords and their property owning supporters/backers overseeing a decrease in house builds during a property disaster, further driving up rents and prices. Shocked I am, shocked.
The only thing that would make me more shocked is these self-same decision-makers getting cushy jobs post-politics with the foreign pension funds who are buying up Irish property.
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Keep the recovery going.
The full release from the CSO: [https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ndc/newdwellingcompletionsq42024/](https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ndc/newdwellingcompletionsq42024/)
A lot done, more to do.
And 4 more years to go
And their also knocking down the almost complete apartments and 40 new homes that they’ve been building on the site in coolock that has half a million quid affordable houses.
Joke shop of a country
How am I not supposed to be resentful towards older and middle aged voters voting for insanely irresponsible housing policy?
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QUICK GET THE STORY OUT!
But yeah, depressing.
By all measures, government housing policy has been a massive failure for several years now.
Martin, Harris and OBrien all campaigned on delivering close to 40,000 homes and now we’ve proof they were lying.
They shouldnt have been let back near government. But at the very least O’Briens position as housing minister is untenable.
I mean most people should be happy with this news. We all got a chance to vote 2 months again and judging by the fact that the majority voted back in the same government who’s policies have led to headlines like this and exasperated the housing crisis most of Ireland support news like this.
Yet people are taken aback when they see us young people are forced to leave the country. The older generation are forcing their own kids and grandkids out of here.
not sure who i find more irritating. the people who directly voted for FF-FG yet again or the people who voted for the obviously-not-independent independents🙄
The only people that didn’t acknowledge that this was going to be the case was the government. Instead they’ve gaslighted the public with ‘commencement’ figures. Shambolic.
Well yeah, we reelected landlord neo-liberals. It’s a feature, not a bug
[The theme song to the Irish government. ](https://youtu.be/W87Tmvu7iz8?si=ay_U3oGGESjzYGBP)
Living in a new estate, moved in 6 months ago and there’s no one else on our row of houses.
At first I thought that they had sold and people were taking their time, some are.
But after chatting with the foreman it turns out most haven’t sold because of the prices.
We get what we vote for.
Wasn’t there a post here from towards the end of last year where house builds had increased in the final quarter from the previous, and FFG supporters here were patting themselves on the back and downvoting anyone who suggested that that’s just compared to the previous quarter.
Well, here we go. Builds are actually DOWN on 2023, doesn’t matter what individual quarter we look at.
So, my shitbox apartment I overpaid for will just continue to appreciate in value. Everyone told us we spent too much on it, but there has barely been a unit sold in the development for less than we spent since. Where does this stop? The last owner made 70k off us. We’re on track to take as much, if not more, off the next buyer. This is crazy.
No point crying in here lads. The electorate has made it plain as day that they are ok with young people immigrating and not having children. This echo chamber won’t change the minds of FFG voters. Shameful stuff.
Decreasing? Because we were able to match demand? No? Jeez
All going to plan
And going by the Independent.ie, we are getting the same utterly useless housing minister again.
Country is utterly fucked on this issue and about to get way worse
In a year of record breaking immigration.
The problem with housing is everyone saying the housing policies of FF/FG aren’t working when actually they are working and working well and probably above anybody in governments expectations.
Keeping supply low making house prices high, works for the building companies who get to sell for big profits, home owners who wish to sell get to make big profits and those who wish to sit on a house asset feel good because they own an expensive asset, so it’s working for them. Home owners sitting on expensive assets with paid off mortgages tend to be FF/FG voters. They tend to feel those who can’t buy simply aren’t working hard enough, they like Leo’s jibe about those getting up early in the morning, they don’t acknowledge the goal posts have been moved far beyond the average persons reach. Nor does it matter that in a market where individuals are competing against multinational companies able to buy up whole apartment complexs and housing estates is a reality.
The current government housing policy is also paying dividends to the rental market, having little supply keeps rents high. This benefits the landlords in the Dáil, corporate landlords and vulture funds of which the last housing minister Darragh O’Brien was an initial investor.
Both these situations benefit banks and lenders, builders need loans to build, corporations need loans to buy and individuals need mortgages, all pay interest to the banks. Those very same banks the people of Ireland bailed out although our newly elected taoiseach thinks no banks were bailed out, yet they would have failed otherwise, so were in fact bailed out.
https://www.thejournal.ie/factcheck-irish-government-bank-guarantee-bailout-5301833-Dec2020/
The other people benefitting are hotel / BnB / building owners who are housing homeless and homeless families in them and turning buildings into homeless hubs.
In all this mix are those caught up in the rental market stuck paying extortionate rents unable to save and unable to buy. Those stuck in their childhood bedrooms, unable to move out through lack of rfntsls and unable to buy because of sky high prices. And those now living in hotels and bnbs and homeless hubs with unknown consequences to the children who government have told by their actions that they are not worth anything.
But who cares they are just collateral damage in the wider scheme, government don’t care, if they did they would actually do something instead they spin lies, like saying house building is up 87% or so either nonsense figure. Go check out his X account
In every crisis someone is making money and if those making money are the ones at the top why would they change things. So next time someone says the housing market isn’t working please correct them because it is, just not for those in the middle and lower rungs of the ladder. And remind them that with FF/FG voters keeping the status quo, they are just as culpable for this situation as government ministers. FF/FG are do desperate to cling power these two usually in opposition of each other would rather merge into one than allow change.
Well surprise sur-fucking-prise.
The Dáil landlords and their property owning supporters/backers overseeing a decrease in house builds during a property disaster, further driving up rents and prices. Shocked I am, shocked.
The only thing that would make me more shocked is these self-same decision-makers getting cushy jobs post-politics with the foreign pension funds who are buying up Irish property.
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