Good. Glad that people are using the systems built to get them housed.
Too many people are too proud to go on the council list.
If they’re living at home then surely they’re not eligible? Unless they can claim it’s overcrowded.
If you have your own room in your parents house I assume you won’t get on the social housing list
This is the way, get on early, keep your wages artificially low. Once you get the house earn as much as you want.
I think people in this thread are missing the point… The new norm is that young, working people have little chance of home ownership. I wish the government and greedy landlords would stop pointing the finger at others and realise how fucked up Ireland’s housing situation is because of them.
What kind of a fucked up society is it when working people can’t afford their own housing?
Soviet Union some how managed better! Ridiculous
This problem does seem hopeless. Until our Government (whoever they are) realise and are prepared to build houses themselves, the problem gets worse. The Government built houses in the 50s and the 60s when we were a much poorer country, so this is a realistic possibility in the mid 2020s. The solution lies in training and developing our young people to work in the required house building trades. Then offering secure and attractive employment opportunities and finally using it’s already acquired land banks to build housing that is affordable to meet our young people’s needs. More land banks should be compulsorily purchased as required. Borrow as much as we need, it is an absolutely necessary infrastructure. As you could imagine this is a twenty year project and one that will result in success. The Government should be forced to get on with it.
No majority will ever vote for house prices to lose value or to risk negative equity. We are stuck until we can figure out how to bridge the generational divide and get the older generation to recognise that their wealth is coming at the cost of future generations. I see the death of the Catholic Church having a lot to do with this – I suspect most wealthy older people don’t personally know young people and never meet them.
Moan moan moan
Guys, won’t you just put your trust in ~~Eoghan Murphy~~ ~~Darragh O’Brien~~ James Browne. The government has a plan to fix all this, and they certainly won’t fuck you over in order to make sure the landlords aren’t inconvenienced.
It’s not like the prevailing feeling on government benches continues to be: “One person’s rent is another person’s income.”
If the government was serious about giving hard pressed renters & home hunters a break, the first port of call would be to reduce housing demand.
Drastically reducing the number of work and student visas issued would have an immediate effect.
For once the government should take a holistic and honest approach to the situation.
“Yes – this beef factory worker on 34k per year will pay 5.5k in tax, but if they bring their spouse and children they will be a net cost to the state. They will also require housing, increasing demand, driving up rents and property prices. So weighing up the GDP benefit versus the societal benefits, the Visa has been refused.”
Is there still a stigma around ‘council housing’? This type of housing exists in Europe but perhaps without the stigma we see here.
We need more social housing to combat the high rents of the private sector, but since quite a few in FF/FG are landlords themselves, that won’t happen :/
Soon most of population will be in need of social housing as there will be no other way of getting housing…
All while new builds numbers are decreasing
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Good. Glad that people are using the systems built to get them housed.
Too many people are too proud to go on the council list.
If they’re living at home then surely they’re not eligible? Unless they can claim it’s overcrowded.
If you have your own room in your parents house I assume you won’t get on the social housing list
This is the way, get on early, keep your wages artificially low. Once you get the house earn as much as you want.
I think people in this thread are missing the point… The new norm is that young, working people have little chance of home ownership. I wish the government and greedy landlords would stop pointing the finger at others and realise how fucked up Ireland’s housing situation is because of them.
What kind of a fucked up society is it when working people can’t afford their own housing?
Soviet Union some how managed better! Ridiculous
This problem does seem hopeless. Until our Government (whoever they are) realise and are prepared to build houses themselves, the problem gets worse. The Government built houses in the 50s and the 60s when we were a much poorer country, so this is a realistic possibility in the mid 2020s. The solution lies in training and developing our young people to work in the required house building trades. Then offering secure and attractive employment opportunities and finally using it’s already acquired land banks to build housing that is affordable to meet our young people’s needs. More land banks should be compulsorily purchased as required. Borrow as much as we need, it is an absolutely necessary infrastructure. As you could imagine this is a twenty year project and one that will result in success. The Government should be forced to get on with it.
No majority will ever vote for house prices to lose value or to risk negative equity. We are stuck until we can figure out how to bridge the generational divide and get the older generation to recognise that their wealth is coming at the cost of future generations. I see the death of the Catholic Church having a lot to do with this – I suspect most wealthy older people don’t personally know young people and never meet them.
Moan moan moan
Guys, won’t you just put your trust in ~~Eoghan Murphy~~ ~~Darragh O’Brien~~ James Browne. The government has a plan to fix all this, and they certainly won’t fuck you over in order to make sure the landlords aren’t inconvenienced.
It’s not like the prevailing feeling on government benches continues to be: “One person’s rent is another person’s income.”
If the government was serious about giving hard pressed renters & home hunters a break, the first port of call would be to reduce housing demand.
Drastically reducing the number of work and student visas issued would have an immediate effect.
For once the government should take a holistic and honest approach to the situation.
“Yes – this beef factory worker on 34k per year will pay 5.5k in tax, but if they bring their spouse and children they will be a net cost to the state. They will also require housing, increasing demand, driving up rents and property prices. So weighing up the GDP benefit versus the societal benefits, the Visa has been refused.”
Is there still a stigma around ‘council housing’? This type of housing exists in Europe but perhaps without the stigma we see here.
We need more social housing to combat the high rents of the private sector, but since quite a few in FF/FG are landlords themselves, that won’t happen :/
Soon most of population will be in need of social housing as there will be no other way of getting housing…
All while new builds numbers are decreasing
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