So I’m likely gonna be old and grey and paying rent to live in a closet…Lovely read for a Sunday morning…..
Let’s hope everything collapses and we can seize shit from the super wealthy
If only they could just build more houses.
They also need to start telling people in their 30s just how exactly they need to get a LDA property of any sort.
aaaaaaaand no wonder why myself and everyone else my age is aiming to emigrate after college.
Absolutely hopeless
Headline makes it sound like they are introducing a new marvel villan
I’ve seen this firsthand..there’s a rented house in my estate whose tenants are older, one of whom is definitely retirement age.
It’s a truly depressing sight.
ALONE and other age-friendly organisations have been banging this drum for over a decade now.
For a country to efficiently operate it needs multiple types of housing tenures for the different stages of its populations lifecycle.
Due to our late economic development we’ve been hopelessly shite at future planning all aspects of our society, especially housing.
Specific age friendly developments have been introduced over the last number of years through both the private, aimed at down-sizers, and social, aimed at social housing applicants over 55, but the units delivered are a pittance compared to the actual demand.
Add to that the fact that the age-friendly private developments are nearly always located in affluent areas were the purchasers have the purchasing power gained in the majority of cases from selling their larger homes, it means that the availability of age-friendly housing is further diminished to the masses who need it.
FFG have nothing to offer us. I’m so sick of people saying how the _housing crisis is very hard on the young people_
I was a young person 10 years ago. It isn’t a crisis anymore, it’s normalisedÂ
I graduated into the recession era in 2010 and have been listening to this housing crisis headline since back then.
A crisis that goes on this long is not a crisis it is an utter failure and down to government policy and choices.
The only way this changes is if people threaten this government and their position.
March on government buildings and protest. Hound local politicians. Have employers bring it to chambers of commerce use every means to put it on every agenda.
I am around long enough to know the short tenure of our elected politicians is ideal to promise everything and deliver nothing.
They have no accountability but they are terrified of protests and people shaking out of apathy.
I am advocating peaceful not violent protest here via every channel we have as citizens.
We’ve fallen so far behind on building a certain quota of properties every year over the last 15-ish years that it is impossible to “build ourselves” out of the mess, even if we started tomorrow on double output; the problem is so far ahead of us that we can’t catch up to it anymore…
Source: Construction worker, and you can find the reports on these figures
People need to stop calling it a crisis and start calling it for what it actually is……. government policy.
I won’t lie when I say as someone who’s current situation could go any way, these headlines constantly are depressing. I get it’s highlighting the issues and this is needed but so are real solutions. I already wouldn’t be the biggest fan of this time of year for reasons and normally can’t wait for it to pass but contemplating the possibilities for after has me wondering which could be worse
Least the vast majority voted for this lot to continue dooming future generations
hmmm if only someone had a surplus of cash they could front up to support construction and land acquisition.
oh well nevermind
It’s only the housing market but the banks. My cousin cannot obtain a mortgage without a € 60,000 deposit because his girlfriend cannot only work 21 hours per week because of her medical condition.
Been saying this for years. It’s as plain as a developer’s nose up a politicians arse
Step one : outlaw the sale of residential houses to commercial entities
Step two: tell the vultures to fuck off and feed on some other country
Step three: tell the middle ireland FG im alright jack crowd to shut their fucking mouths crying about the price of something they had no intention of selling anyway
My mum is 69 and has had to move 3 times in the past 5 years due to renting and landlords deciding to sell, make modifications, etc etc.
Really damaging her mental health and meaning I’m sending her over a grand after tax each month just to get by, which means I can’t save shit either
I honestly think renting into older age is less of a problem than the collapse in birth rates associates with the precarious housing situation facing many younger people.
A paper was recently published which in the US showed that fully half the decline in birthrates has been caused by a lack of housing. I’d say that easily translates here.
Brought to you by: Boomers
That’s my response anytime I see anyone suggesting Irish people are “obsessed with owning property”
Have you your pension savings planned around renting into your 90s? Will you be happy to queue up for listings on daft in your 80s? Will your landlord let you put in a stair lift and a wheel chair accessible bathroom when the time comes?
No? That’s why you need to own a place.
Yet, when election time comes, people still vote for the parties that have failed us. We deserve everything we are getting.
80k Ukrainians going home next year fingers crossed if peace talks go well should hopefully help somewhat
Simple. Cap rent costs and force the greedy landlords to give up their I’ll gotten wealth
I’m in construction & we literally can’t build houses any quicker! There’s more houses going up in 4 square miles in Dublin than is being built in the whole of the north, no housing crisis up there
This was raised a decade or more ago and ignored too. The policy making here is always about ignoring impending issues and reacting to them too late when they’re crises – housing, transportation, health, energy, water supply, probably defence, in the past things like broadband etc etc…
We are incredibly bad at strategising about things like this. If something isn’t an immediate impending disaster causing an actual political pressure, our policy makers don’t act.
We let the crisis happen, then react in a panic at incredible expense and having caused unnecessary cost, problems or even suffering in some contexts for the people who were dealing with the outcome of the slow reaction.
The department of housing are going to release a video demonstrating to retirees how they can dumpster dive for food and how to find a safe spot to pitch their tent once they’re evicted.
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So I’m likely gonna be old and grey and paying rent to live in a closet…Lovely read for a Sunday morning…..
Let’s hope everything collapses and we can seize shit from the super wealthy
If only they could just build more houses.
They also need to start telling people in their 30s just how exactly they need to get a LDA property of any sort.
aaaaaaaand no wonder why myself and everyone else my age is aiming to emigrate after college.
Absolutely hopeless
Headline makes it sound like they are introducing a new marvel villan
I’ve seen this firsthand..there’s a rented house in my estate whose tenants are older, one of whom is definitely retirement age.
It’s a truly depressing sight.
ALONE and other age-friendly organisations have been banging this drum for over a decade now.
For a country to efficiently operate it needs multiple types of housing tenures for the different stages of its populations lifecycle.
Due to our late economic development we’ve been hopelessly shite at future planning all aspects of our society, especially housing.
Specific age friendly developments have been introduced over the last number of years through both the private, aimed at down-sizers, and social, aimed at social housing applicants over 55, but the units delivered are a pittance compared to the actual demand.
Add to that the fact that the age-friendly private developments are nearly always located in affluent areas were the purchasers have the purchasing power gained in the majority of cases from selling their larger homes, it means that the availability of age-friendly housing is further diminished to the masses who need it.
FFG have nothing to offer us. I’m so sick of people saying how the _housing crisis is very hard on the young people_
I was a young person 10 years ago. It isn’t a crisis anymore, it’s normalisedÂ
I graduated into the recession era in 2010 and have been listening to this housing crisis headline since back then.
A crisis that goes on this long is not a crisis it is an utter failure and down to government policy and choices.
The only way this changes is if people threaten this government and their position.
March on government buildings and protest. Hound local politicians. Have employers bring it to chambers of commerce use every means to put it on every agenda.
I am around long enough to know the short tenure of our elected politicians is ideal to promise everything and deliver nothing.
They have no accountability but they are terrified of protests and people shaking out of apathy.
I am advocating peaceful not violent protest here via every channel we have as citizens.
We’ve fallen so far behind on building a certain quota of properties every year over the last 15-ish years that it is impossible to “build ourselves” out of the mess, even if we started tomorrow on double output; the problem is so far ahead of us that we can’t catch up to it anymore…
Source: Construction worker, and you can find the reports on these figures
People need to stop calling it a crisis and start calling it for what it actually is……. government policy.
I won’t lie when I say as someone who’s current situation could go any way, these headlines constantly are depressing. I get it’s highlighting the issues and this is needed but so are real solutions. I already wouldn’t be the biggest fan of this time of year for reasons and normally can’t wait for it to pass but contemplating the possibilities for after has me wondering which could be worse
Least the vast majority voted for this lot to continue dooming future generations
hmmm if only someone had a surplus of cash they could front up to support construction and land acquisition.
oh well nevermind
It’s only the housing market but the banks. My cousin cannot obtain a mortgage without a € 60,000 deposit because his girlfriend cannot only work 21 hours per week because of her medical condition.
Been saying this for years. It’s as plain as a developer’s nose up a politicians arse
Step one : outlaw the sale of residential houses to commercial entities
Step two: tell the vultures to fuck off and feed on some other country
Step three: tell the middle ireland FG im alright jack crowd to shut their fucking mouths crying about the price of something they had no intention of selling anyway
My mum is 69 and has had to move 3 times in the past 5 years due to renting and landlords deciding to sell, make modifications, etc etc.
Really damaging her mental health and meaning I’m sending her over a grand after tax each month just to get by, which means I can’t save shit either
I honestly think renting into older age is less of a problem than the collapse in birth rates associates with the precarious housing situation facing many younger people.
A paper was recently published which in the US showed that fully half the decline in birthrates has been caused by a lack of housing. I’d say that easily translates here.
Brought to you by: Boomers
That’s my response anytime I see anyone suggesting Irish people are “obsessed with owning property”
Have you your pension savings planned around renting into your 90s? Will you be happy to queue up for listings on daft in your 80s? Will your landlord let you put in a stair lift and a wheel chair accessible bathroom when the time comes?
No? That’s why you need to own a place.
Yet, when election time comes, people still vote for the parties that have failed us. We deserve everything we are getting.
80k Ukrainians going home next year fingers crossed if peace talks go well should hopefully help somewhat
Simple. Cap rent costs and force the greedy landlords to give up their I’ll gotten wealth
I’m in construction & we literally can’t build houses any quicker! There’s more houses going up in 4 square miles in Dublin than is being built in the whole of the north, no housing crisis up there
This was raised a decade or more ago and ignored too. The policy making here is always about ignoring impending issues and reacting to them too late when they’re crises – housing, transportation, health, energy, water supply, probably defence, in the past things like broadband etc etc…
We are incredibly bad at strategising about things like this. If something isn’t an immediate impending disaster causing an actual political pressure, our policy makers don’t act.
We let the crisis happen, then react in a panic at incredible expense and having caused unnecessary cost, problems or even suffering in some contexts for the people who were dealing with the outcome of the slow reaction.
The department of housing are going to release a video demonstrating to retirees how they can dumpster dive for food and how to find a safe spot to pitch their tent once they’re evicted.
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