Cue government outrage at this attempt at politicizing art, and how “garden shears being used to cut the rope is clearly an attack on agriculture and irish farmers, how dare you, etc etc”
Darragh O’Brien might want to get his thyroid checked out
down there? were, australia?
I wonder are there any other countries where entire towns and counties have less than 10 places to rent? Our 2nd largest city has less than 40 and they’re all 2kish a month. There’s not even anything in Donegal.
I know this is supposed to be a worldwide issue but I see loads more places in England, even in the North it doesn’t seem to be as bad as here.
That fucking chin – omg hahahahahahahahaha
I had seen your Stormont piece online and loved it, Im a history teacher and showed it to my students!
Why can’t the government get one of those housing barges?
Here me out, it would serve a temporary solution, where we can house those effected by the evictions bad, while the government builds affordable housing/apartments.
whatever your political views, you’ve got to say that it’s a great caricature, captures them really well
In the US if there’s a demand the market moves to see it gets filled. The upside here is no one’s waiting for the government to build. I live in a mid-size city that has three new large apartment complexes in various stages of construction. Here governments just get in the way with egregious permitting requirements or ridiculous zoning requirements. You’ll get a couple of Americans whinging about not being able to find an apartment but most are upset that they can’t find a spacious 2/2 for $800/month.
I can’t believe Sinn féin have done this to this poor family.
Edit:spelling
Problem is much deeper, rent prices should be frozen then people will afford paying rent and eviction ban won’t be big problem
Question is.. how did the family get up there in the first place?
It’s a nice piece of art.
Completely fails to ignore the fact that an eviction ban would result in a reduction in the housing supply, and thus result in significantly more homelessness, in the mid-to-long term, but I do like the art for what it is.
It does, admittedly, do a good job of highlighting the lack of empathy from those in the political class to the situation – in particular, the lack of any short-term assistance offered to help those affected. Even if it is a necessity to stop rent freezes, there’s a way of doing so that doesn’t come across as so cruel and uncaring.
A better bubble would have been “But we implemented it”
I can’t comment on Irish but the UK case is likely similar – banks began to offer mortgages, which both reduced the cost of mortgages significantly and increased the availability of them. This was compounded by a lack of new houses, and interestingly there was a short period in the UK where house prices increased significantly at the same time as the housing supply increased.
Then the UK gov brought in a number of disastrous policies (Help to Buy, Buy to Let, extremely low% mortgages) which did nothing but push house prices up, to nobody’s surprise.
So people were expecting the ban to be never lifted? How would that be sustainable?
Careful, FFFG and their lackeys will be along shortly crying that you’ve used satire against them
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Captured Darragh O’Brien’s double-chin perfectly
Cue government outrage at this attempt at politicizing art, and how “garden shears being used to cut the rope is clearly an attack on agriculture and irish farmers, how dare you, etc etc”
Hi, I post more politically motivated art on [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/infiniteguff/) and [twitter](https://twitter.com/infiniteguff/)
Darragh O’Brien might want to get his thyroid checked out
down there? were, australia?
I wonder are there any other countries where entire towns and counties have less than 10 places to rent? Our 2nd largest city has less than 40 and they’re all 2kish a month. There’s not even anything in Donegal.
I know this is supposed to be a worldwide issue but I see loads more places in England, even in the North it doesn’t seem to be as bad as here.
That fucking chin – omg hahahahahahahahaha
I had seen your Stormont piece online and loved it, Im a history teacher and showed it to my students!
Why can’t the government get one of those housing barges?
Here me out, it would serve a temporary solution, where we can house those effected by the evictions bad, while the government builds affordable housing/apartments.
whatever your political views, you’ve got to say that it’s a great caricature, captures them really well
In the US if there’s a demand the market moves to see it gets filled. The upside here is no one’s waiting for the government to build. I live in a mid-size city that has three new large apartment complexes in various stages of construction. Here governments just get in the way with egregious permitting requirements or ridiculous zoning requirements. You’ll get a couple of Americans whinging about not being able to find an apartment but most are upset that they can’t find a spacious 2/2 for $800/month.
I can’t believe Sinn féin have done this to this poor family.
Edit:spelling
Problem is much deeper, rent prices should be frozen then people will afford paying rent and eviction ban won’t be big problem
Question is.. how did the family get up there in the first place?
It’s a nice piece of art.
Completely fails to ignore the fact that an eviction ban would result in a reduction in the housing supply, and thus result in significantly more homelessness, in the mid-to-long term, but I do like the art for what it is.
It does, admittedly, do a good job of highlighting the lack of empathy from those in the political class to the situation – in particular, the lack of any short-term assistance offered to help those affected. Even if it is a necessity to stop rent freezes, there’s a way of doing so that doesn’t come across as so cruel and uncaring.
Leo needs odd socks
Soul crushing.
https://preview.redd.it/i3wu1jlxtisa1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=38b332274833a033ab5c07b6dd9389dce8574b43
A better bubble would have been “But we implemented it”
I can’t comment on Irish but the UK case is likely similar – banks began to offer mortgages, which both reduced the cost of mortgages significantly and increased the availability of them. This was compounded by a lack of new houses, and interestingly there was a short period in the UK where house prices increased significantly at the same time as the housing supply increased.
Then the UK gov brought in a number of disastrous policies (Help to Buy, Buy to Let, extremely low% mortgages) which did nothing but push house prices up, to nobody’s surprise.
So people were expecting the ban to be never lifted? How would that be sustainable?
Careful, FFFG and their lackeys will be along shortly crying that you’ve used satire against them