The government may act on this, but their solution will be to bulk sell them to their developer friends for the rental market.
Artificial scarcity dressed up as ”supply and demand” and FG then come out with mea culpas and hand wringing.
Funny how all the people complaining about dilapidated buildings are those who’d never move a single limb to do any work themselves (or alternatively pay anyone out of pocket to get something going).
It’s always “others” to pay and do the work (and those working to be fleeced @50%) so they get their government sponsored home.
Society just full of freeloaders. The housing crisis will never be solved by anyone.
It’s actually shocking how many derelict buildings exist in the centre of Dublin. Not to mention empty plots.
Fix them, build them.
The house beside my grandads has been empty for 20 years. A tree is growing out of it. The wall they share lets damp through. Clearly empty all that time. It wouldn’t have been so much work to turn it around and make it livable if it was done straight away, but it’s a complete mess now. The back garden grew so big it blocked light to its neighbours, until complaints made.
Council put a sticker to say it’s been noted as a vacant home a few months ago.
Government could at least heavily tax empty and derelict properties to push owners to sell them the same time creating a program providing mortgage for first time buyers to purchase and repair derelict houses.
Should see rural areas. Thousands of houses just derilect and vacant
The government is a sham the housing industry is a sham the politicians openly don’t give a fuck, for the first time ever I’m beginning to think we’re unfixable, nobody cares enough until it directly affects them and by that point it’s too late you’ll just be swallowed up & puked out by the system,
A lot of these buildings would take a lot to fix up to make them habitable, they are small with terrible insulation, not suitable to modern building standards at all. And often there are reasons why they are not used. (Ownership, access, rights of way, lack of water/sewage, etc.) in addition to the bad building quality. Would still have to go through the planning permission process and with old building a lot could get slapped with preservation orders. Would be just easier to demolish a lot of them and build new but it was decided we didn’t want that either.
A state building company would fix none these of problems, it would be an expensive distraction that would have a board full of ex civil servants, politicians and retired builders and in the end lose to the private sector in way too many deals.
The government had 1 billion unspent in the dept of housing last yr. Could they not cpo alot of these buildings and renovate/ convert. If owners can’t afford to fix them up themselves they should be happy to sell them especially if they were hit with vacancy taxes every 12 months
but but but….. why isn’t the free market fixing it /s
Restoring very old housing is very slow and complicated. It’s wonderful to do but not some quick fix. Btw it’s happening. There are plenty of examples of excellent restoration projects. For example one of oldest houses in Ireland which now houses refugees in Thomas street
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The government may act on this, but their solution will be to bulk sell them to their developer friends for the rental market.
Artificial scarcity dressed up as ”supply and demand” and FG then come out with mea culpas and hand wringing.
Funny how all the people complaining about dilapidated buildings are those who’d never move a single limb to do any work themselves (or alternatively pay anyone out of pocket to get something going).
It’s always “others” to pay and do the work (and those working to be fleeced @50%) so they get their government sponsored home.
Society just full of freeloaders. The housing crisis will never be solved by anyone.
It’s actually shocking how many derelict buildings exist in the centre of Dublin. Not to mention empty plots.
Fix them, build them.
The house beside my grandads has been empty for 20 years. A tree is growing out of it. The wall they share lets damp through. Clearly empty all that time. It wouldn’t have been so much work to turn it around and make it livable if it was done straight away, but it’s a complete mess now. The back garden grew so big it blocked light to its neighbours, until complaints made.
Council put a sticker to say it’s been noted as a vacant home a few months ago.
Government could at least heavily tax empty and derelict properties to push owners to sell them the same time creating a program providing mortgage for first time buyers to purchase and repair derelict houses.
Should see rural areas. Thousands of houses just derilect and vacant
The government is a sham the housing industry is a sham the politicians openly don’t give a fuck, for the first time ever I’m beginning to think we’re unfixable, nobody cares enough until it directly affects them and by that point it’s too late you’ll just be swallowed up & puked out by the system,
A lot of these buildings would take a lot to fix up to make them habitable, they are small with terrible insulation, not suitable to modern building standards at all. And often there are reasons why they are not used. (Ownership, access, rights of way, lack of water/sewage, etc.) in addition to the bad building quality. Would still have to go through the planning permission process and with old building a lot could get slapped with preservation orders. Would be just easier to demolish a lot of them and build new but it was decided we didn’t want that either.
A state building company would fix none these of problems, it would be an expensive distraction that would have a board full of ex civil servants, politicians and retired builders and in the end lose to the private sector in way too many deals.
The government had 1 billion unspent in the dept of housing last yr. Could they not cpo alot of these buildings and renovate/ convert. If owners can’t afford to fix them up themselves they should be happy to sell them especially if they were hit with vacancy taxes every 12 months
but but but….. why isn’t the free market fixing it /s
Restoring very old housing is very slow and complicated. It’s wonderful to do but not some quick fix. Btw it’s happening. There are plenty of examples of excellent restoration projects. For example one of oldest houses in Ireland which now houses refugees in Thomas street