Cool clickbait, this can’t possibly be related to the global pandemic which kept closing down building sites for most of 2020/2021…
The government doesn’t want to fix housing. This is the outcome they wanted. The pivot to bleating about landlords ”leaving” (when 94% are staying) is proof of this.
They are not interested in anything but ensuring housing remains a financial asset for the professional classes while allowing REITS and other investment vehicles to claim more and more market share.
This has been the continuous unbroken policy since the crash.
So they’ve got a cool billion hanging around that they could be spending on housing right now in 2023?
If I was a young buck I’d be binning off ideas of college (certainly the shittier college courses, media studies, feminism, or marketing) and getting my arse signed up to an apprenticeship ASAP
You could spend tens of thousands of euro on a degree no one in the real world wants and spend years firing off CVs trying to get a 35k a year job. Or get a trade and lord it.
I’m in my late 20s and just found out about how much you can apparently make doing mining work in Australia. Genuinely depressed that I didn’t do this in my early 20s because I’d probably be able to afford some stuff if I had
Landlords’ Republic.
There are things in the pipeline, modern prefabricated housing is coming but of course it takes time to arrange everything.
It’s almost as if those responsible have a vested interest in keeping housing costs high and extremely profitable for large companies and large landlords
€1,000,000,000 left sitting idle in the department.
That is utterly unacceptable. The government havent done enough and if the department don’t even act on that then heads should roll.
Average cost of building a house in Ireland is ~200,000 from what I remember reading of an article on TheCurrency
1 billion / 200,000 = 5,000 houses. Not bad at all.
Obviously they did, there were multiple lockdowns, massive supply chain issues along with some labour shortages.
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Cool clickbait, this can’t possibly be related to the global pandemic which kept closing down building sites for most of 2020/2021…
The government doesn’t want to fix housing. This is the outcome they wanted. The pivot to bleating about landlords ”leaving” (when 94% are staying) is proof of this.
They are not interested in anything but ensuring housing remains a financial asset for the professional classes while allowing REITS and other investment vehicles to claim more and more market share.
This has been the continuous unbroken policy since the crash.
So they’ve got a cool billion hanging around that they could be spending on housing right now in 2023?
If I was a young buck I’d be binning off ideas of college (certainly the shittier college courses, media studies, feminism, or marketing) and getting my arse signed up to an apprenticeship ASAP
You could spend tens of thousands of euro on a degree no one in the real world wants and spend years firing off CVs trying to get a 35k a year job. Or get a trade and lord it.
I’m in my late 20s and just found out about how much you can apparently make doing mining work in Australia. Genuinely depressed that I didn’t do this in my early 20s because I’d probably be able to afford some stuff if I had
Landlords’ Republic.
There are things in the pipeline, modern prefabricated housing is coming but of course it takes time to arrange everything.
It’s almost as if those responsible have a vested interest in keeping housing costs high and extremely profitable for large companies and large landlords
€1,000,000,000 left sitting idle in the department.
That is utterly unacceptable. The government havent done enough and if the department don’t even act on that then heads should roll.
Average cost of building a house in Ireland is ~200,000 from what I remember reading of an article on TheCurrency
1 billion / 200,000 = 5,000 houses. Not bad at all.
Obviously they did, there were multiple lockdowns, massive supply chain issues along with some labour shortages.