Do these lads ever follow through their thinking process to see the side effects of what they are proposing?
This would cap rents at €915pm
Fucking lala land policies out of this shower
They would be better off trying to implement reasonable policies rather than this mad stuff that will never go anywhere
> The Bill would amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels by limiting them to a maximum of a quarter of median monthly household income and to establish a National Rent Authority to oversee this. Luxury accommodation is excluded.
I don’t know, these days these kinds of radical (pie in the sky) ideas seem better and better…
Why stop with just rent? Force mcdonald’s to drop the price of a big mac to 1 euro. Just introduce a massive bill to cut the price of everything and that’ll sobre the cost of living crisis.
This politics Craic is too easy.
Not a remote hope of happening unfortunately
Id love to know if the political staff and Oireachtas staff know that they are just pissing away time and money when they are working on and process these bills.
What do pbp think will happen? The government vote with them?
There would never be another new unit of rental property built in Ireland ever again if this passed. Every small landlord would leave the market (in Dublin at least). It would create the biggest case of insiders and outsiders you can imagine and wouldn’t help anyone who is struggling to find accommodation. It would be a total catastrophe but they’re just doing it so they can go on the radio tomorrow morning to kick and scream. If there is a more useless political body on the planet than PBP I’d love to know.
The problem with rent caps is unforseen side effects, the ussr had zero price rices for decades but it actually wrecked the economy. There are other ways to tackle this crisis but I’m not convinced by this well intentioned one.
Obviously this won’t happen, but if it did, surely this would cause house prices to absolutely skyrocket?
I’d be able to save an extra 500 a month, and have much more for a deposit, as would many people.
Would the house prices not just go up accordingly?
Nothing will meaningfully change without genuinely radical policy. I’m glad that at least one party has the political imagination to propose fucking something.
But in the end this idea is just tweaking the numbers in some regulation slightly and doesn’t really challenge the underlying issue.
Is it any fucking wonder we never get anything done in this country. Fucking landlorders coming out of the woodwork left and right to tell us why rent caps are a bad thing is because these fucks would no longer be able to sit on their holes and live off the hard work of others. Rent caps are a good thing because they level the playing field and remove avenues in which posh fucks can abuse the market to further perpetuate inequality in ireland by living lavish lives off of other peoples hard work.
How dare the dirty poors of Ireland try to implement a law that ensures they have access to fairly priced accommodation. Poors are simply there to create value for their masters in the upper classes
Fucking West Brits.
To ask the obvious, what would the long term impact be of setting a fractional price for something as core as rent? It means rent can go up and down and reflect real life cost which does sound very very tempting and something I’m sure we’d all want (I also assume this would be per resident in a place and not per household but that clarification isn’t there not that I’m against either or). But has this been done before? Do we have someone else we can learn from historically to indicate that this is actually a good idea or not? It seems quite “shallow” as a ruleset as well, like its quite unaccommodating. What’s a luxury accommodation? What’s a base accommodation, is a one bed student apartment worth the same as a box room in a landlords house? What’s the difference if any etc etc
They are a hindrance to progress. Look if you want left things to happen vote labour and Soc dems if you like protests and nothing to happen vote PBP
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Bless their hearts
Do these lads ever follow through their thinking process to see the side effects of what they are proposing?
This would cap rents at €915pm
Fucking lala land policies out of this shower
They would be better off trying to implement reasonable policies rather than this mad stuff that will never go anywhere
> The Bill would amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels by limiting them to a maximum of a quarter of median monthly household income and to establish a National Rent Authority to oversee this. Luxury accommodation is excluded.
I don’t know, these days these kinds of radical (pie in the sky) ideas seem better and better…
Why stop with just rent? Force mcdonald’s to drop the price of a big mac to 1 euro. Just introduce a massive bill to cut the price of everything and that’ll sobre the cost of living crisis.
This politics Craic is too easy.
Not a remote hope of happening unfortunately
Id love to know if the political staff and Oireachtas staff know that they are just pissing away time and money when they are working on and process these bills.
What do pbp think will happen? The government vote with them?
There would never be another new unit of rental property built in Ireland ever again if this passed. Every small landlord would leave the market (in Dublin at least). It would create the biggest case of insiders and outsiders you can imagine and wouldn’t help anyone who is struggling to find accommodation. It would be a total catastrophe but they’re just doing it so they can go on the radio tomorrow morning to kick and scream. If there is a more useless political body on the planet than PBP I’d love to know.
The problem with rent caps is unforseen side effects, the ussr had zero price rices for decades but it actually wrecked the economy. There are other ways to tackle this crisis but I’m not convinced by this well intentioned one.
Landlords are already selling up, this will just make it worse.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland/surge-in-private-landlords-selling-properties-tempered-price-rises-survey-1325790.html
Obviously this won’t happen, but if it did, surely this would cause house prices to absolutely skyrocket?
I’d be able to save an extra 500 a month, and have much more for a deposit, as would many people.
Would the house prices not just go up accordingly?
Nothing will meaningfully change without genuinely radical policy. I’m glad that at least one party has the political imagination to propose fucking something.
But in the end this idea is just tweaking the numbers in some regulation slightly and doesn’t really challenge the underlying issue.
Is it any fucking wonder we never get anything done in this country. Fucking landlorders coming out of the woodwork left and right to tell us why rent caps are a bad thing is because these fucks would no longer be able to sit on their holes and live off the hard work of others. Rent caps are a good thing because they level the playing field and remove avenues in which posh fucks can abuse the market to further perpetuate inequality in ireland by living lavish lives off of other peoples hard work.
How dare the dirty poors of Ireland try to implement a law that ensures they have access to fairly priced accommodation. Poors are simply there to create value for their masters in the upper classes
Fucking West Brits.
To ask the obvious, what would the long term impact be of setting a fractional price for something as core as rent? It means rent can go up and down and reflect real life cost which does sound very very tempting and something I’m sure we’d all want (I also assume this would be per resident in a place and not per household but that clarification isn’t there not that I’m against either or). But has this been done before? Do we have someone else we can learn from historically to indicate that this is actually a good idea or not? It seems quite “shallow” as a ruleset as well, like its quite unaccommodating. What’s a luxury accommodation? What’s a base accommodation, is a one bed student apartment worth the same as a box room in a landlords house? What’s the difference if any etc etc
They are a hindrance to progress. Look if you want left things to happen vote labour and Soc dems if you like protests and nothing to happen vote PBP