We don’t build <sup>good modular housing <sup>in this country either</sup></sup>
It usually gets trodded out as a solution about now. No intention to actually do some.
Modular housing WILL be the solution in the future, but it’s not now.
Labour’s Alan Kelly had a throwaway comment about modular in 2016, but that’s not the same as “govt has been promising since 2016”. The truth is that modular is a few years away yet from maturity and being a real solution.
A fully automated modular housing factory costs – this is true – over 2 **B**illion to set up, and at max capacity can deliver about 3,000 houses a year. That means that getting to the 60,000-ish we need built every year to invert the price trend, we’d have to spend 40 Billion just to build the factories.
They’ll get more efficient. But until then, they’re not the answer.
**Source:** I work in the field of literally measuring the cost of construction materials, processes, and the cost of construction labour. I’ve personally met with modular housing companies, most of whom are in Eastern Europe, on the exact topic of building housing in Ireland. It can’t be done at this point in time for like 400 reasons.
It’ll be done dw. And given to Ukranians and anyone who isn’t Irish. 🤗
The real hard to swallow pill is that the government were aware that their HAP and rental support schemes would reduce the amount of rental units available in the private market, which results in more demand for a reduced supply and drives up prices for those private renters whose taxes fund those schemes, yet they’ve actively allowed councils and ABP and ridiculous NIMBY rejections to take the absolute piss with stifling our cities developments to actually have large scale, dense housing developments go ahead which would at least help increase the supply. And we don’t know the true number of landlords in our government who are benefiting from all of this, because we can’t find out their spouse’s assets, so they’re likely all thinking “oh no, there’s a rental crisis…someone should think about doing something” while they’re sitting with euro symbols in their eyes. We need to completely do away with this move towards housing being a speculative investment and have it concretely considered a basic necessity and human right above all else, and have a large social/public housing scheme for the people who need it, and complete separation from the private markets so the state housing instead acts as a counterbalance to the private markets
When we gained independence we went from being plundered by the Brits to being plundered by our own, and many of them elected officials
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We don’t build <sup>good modular housing <sup>in this country either</sup></sup>
It usually gets trodded out as a solution about now. No intention to actually do some.
Modular housing WILL be the solution in the future, but it’s not now.
Labour’s Alan Kelly had a throwaway comment about modular in 2016, but that’s not the same as “govt has been promising since 2016”. The truth is that modular is a few years away yet from maturity and being a real solution.
A fully automated modular housing factory costs – this is true – over 2 **B**illion to set up, and at max capacity can deliver about 3,000 houses a year. That means that getting to the 60,000-ish we need built every year to invert the price trend, we’d have to spend 40 Billion just to build the factories.
They’ll get more efficient. But until then, they’re not the answer.
**Source:** I work in the field of literally measuring the cost of construction materials, processes, and the cost of construction labour. I’ve personally met with modular housing companies, most of whom are in Eastern Europe, on the exact topic of building housing in Ireland. It can’t be done at this point in time for like 400 reasons.
It’ll be done dw. And given to Ukranians and anyone who isn’t Irish. 🤗
The real hard to swallow pill is that the government were aware that their HAP and rental support schemes would reduce the amount of rental units available in the private market, which results in more demand for a reduced supply and drives up prices for those private renters whose taxes fund those schemes, yet they’ve actively allowed councils and ABP and ridiculous NIMBY rejections to take the absolute piss with stifling our cities developments to actually have large scale, dense housing developments go ahead which would at least help increase the supply. And we don’t know the true number of landlords in our government who are benefiting from all of this, because we can’t find out their spouse’s assets, so they’re likely all thinking “oh no, there’s a rental crisis…someone should think about doing something” while they’re sitting with euro symbols in their eyes. We need to completely do away with this move towards housing being a speculative investment and have it concretely considered a basic necessity and human right above all else, and have a large social/public housing scheme for the people who need it, and complete separation from the private markets so the state housing instead acts as a counterbalance to the private markets
When we gained independence we went from being plundered by the Brits to being plundered by our own, and many of them elected officials