Housing in Ireland – The Best Thing We’ve Ever Done? 1962

Housing in Ireland – The Best Thing We’ve Ever Done? 1962 from ireland

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  1. Ah now, Leo and the boys said only cuckoo funds could build houses, this is obviously fake news propaganda from *checks notes* FF. Errr wait a minute let’s change the subject to why SF are a bunch of cunts.

  2. My grandad was a union man and talks so fondly of these houses, as he owned one. It’s so disappointing how much things have changed in his lifetime

  6. It’s crazy when I think about this. In 1963 my grandparents paid 1 pound for a raffle ticket and got a house on Glasnevin Road. Imagine that working today. It wasn’t even really a raffle. The majority of people got given houses

  7. Why don’t they build houses like this now? Is there a reason everything has to be semi detached?

  9. I’ve been living in Toronto since 2008 and it’s absolutely incredible to see the parallels between Ireland and here in terms of housing. We have the exact same problems here as back home. Not enough housing, absolutely insane house prices and excessive NIMBYism that means no affordable housing or housing density ever gets built.

    The housing crisis is a worldwide problem.

  10. Love the random cow wandering around behind the reporter, site fencing probally very minimal in the 60s

  13. I wonder how much more a house would have cost to build back then if it were built to the standards of today? There was no insulation, no central heating, single glazed windows, very basic bathrooms etc. There may also have been half a dozen children or more in each 3 bed house. I would hazard a guess that for the same money not a quarter of those houses could have been built to today’s standards back in 1962. And that doesn’t even take account of the fact that the land was likely next to free.
    I don’t know what the above says about anything, it’s just an observation.

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