Just look at where the vacant housing is, and why they’re vacant. The CSO managed to get the reasons for a third of all vacant housing in the state, and the vast majority of them were only temporarily vacant, either because they’ve just been built, they’re for sale, or between tenancies, or being renovated, or the owner was on hospital or a nursing home, or the owner had just died, etc.
Then look at where they’re vacant – lowest vacancy rates are in cities, where people are moving to, and highest in rural areas, where people are moving from. You can say that there’s plenty of empty houses in Leitrim, but that doesn’t say anything about their condition or even just who that would actually help.
So when people start banging on about 150K vacant houses, bear in mind that these aren’t 150K permanently vacant houses, and it isn’t the same 150K houses that are always empty – those are only in the minority.
Walking through my local town yes there’s plenty of vacant property that the old money hags who own let it go derelict and just do enough to keep it standing. They’re are not habitable though and would cost more a fortune to get up to standard.
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Anything in the big giveaway for working people, young people, single people etc?
The ones who can’t save at pace with increases.
Rorys virtuous giveaway
How many are habitable though.
I think it’s easier said than done. Just dump them in the houses and then what? If they ain’t close to a town then it’s hardly the best either.
Again with the figure from the 2016 census, though it looks like he’s rounded it down from the original figure: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp1hii/cp1hii/vac/
Just look at where the vacant housing is, and why they’re vacant. The CSO managed to get the reasons for a third of all vacant housing in the state, and the vast majority of them were only temporarily vacant, either because they’ve just been built, they’re for sale, or between tenancies, or being renovated, or the owner was on hospital or a nursing home, or the owner had just died, etc.
Then look at where they’re vacant – lowest vacancy rates are in cities, where people are moving to, and highest in rural areas, where people are moving from. You can say that there’s plenty of empty houses in Leitrim, but that doesn’t say anything about their condition or even just who that would actually help.
So when people start banging on about 150K vacant houses, bear in mind that these aren’t 150K permanently vacant houses, and it isn’t the same 150K houses that are always empty – those are only in the minority.
Walking through my local town yes there’s plenty of vacant property that the old money hags who own let it go derelict and just do enough to keep it standing. They’re are not habitable though and would cost more a fortune to get up to standard.