If memory serves, it was announced that Ireland had a housing crisis when Simon Coveney was Minister for Housing in 2016.
Why has it taken nearly seven years for serious action rather than tinkering around the edges? A man could be forgiven for thinking that the delay was ideological in nature, and this action is a result of dwindling support in the polls, which may be viewed as “too little, too late.”
10 years to fix it, only considering it now cause it’ll cost them an election, get fucked FFG
Lol I am sure this will actually make things better. I really hope we vote these idiots out next election as they deserve no less.
Just one more election cycle and they will have it fixed.
Oh and here’s some moon and stars while we are at it.
Surely at this stage they have to acknowledge the “housing for all plan” has failed? Like how many revisions to it and missed targets have they had already
It’s still tinkering around the edges.
Why not treat housing as the emergency it is and build directly (or employ European contractors to build for them) on government owned lands.
Use significant portions of the windfall corporation tax (€12 billion this year maybe higher next year) to build them. It’s a perfect capital project for non recurring tax receipts. Instead of putting this money into national pension fund – rent/sell the properties to teachers, nurses etc at cost prices plus nominal interest rate.
I was involved in property in London and saw an Irish company (ballymore) construct 1000s of dwellings over a couple of years.
Money can’t solve everything (health system) but can definitely go a long way towards solving housing crisis if ambition was there to do it.
As for planning / we saw how laws were amended/passed quickly to deal with Covid – can we not treat housing crisis as emergency and do similar.
It’s a load of bullocks. Incentives and breaks for private developers
Just get the state to do the developments and stop using public money to enrich the developer’s
Jesus fucking christ.
For the last goddamn time, anyone who can build, ***is building***.
You’re not going to make headway on the supply front until we have bodies on sites who can actually create supply.
We need more sparkies, plumbers, carpenters, roofers, etc. Put the money into the trades you gutted you fucking numpties.
Behind a paywall. Not a subscriber, so I cant read the article….
“As part of the changes, a person could buy a property, get the grant, renovate it, and then rent it on the long-term rental market. “
Where are they getting these houses in the first place? There’s no stock?
There is a perceived lack of supply due to the hoarding by the vulture funds…
You couldn’t make this shit up…
It’ll probably be the usual fiscal transfer to private developers and they’ll continue charging the same prices.
Anything, ANYTHING to avoid actually building new social houses
They’ll end up spending a billion a year on convulted schemes and rebates and tax acrobatics if it meant they don’t have to build council houses. As the surplus grows to 20billion a year.
This crisis is 100% an ideological choice by FFFG not to build plain old fashioned council housing. The cost stopped being an issue years ago.
Another demand side measure that will just increase prices and go into some developments pocket
Is that the 1 billion they didn’t spend last year
Didn’t they have a massive budget to address the housing crisis in the last one or two budgets that has went completely untouched?
Until I start seeing foundations laid and building sites filling up left right and centre unveiling this or that amount to address the issue will just continue to be seen by me as them trying to bullshit us due to these past lies.
Developers should need to post the infrastructure costs unless all the housing is allocated to first time buyers or other qualifying people
It’s about time. The economics of building homes commercially for typical families have been completely screwed up by huge development levies, VAT and demanding building standards.
Something has to give if we want the private sector to break out from its anaemic levels of output and deliver large numbers of homes for families on typical levels of pay. Dialling back development levies and removing VAT on new homes are the obvious measures with potentially high impact that have not yet been tried. It’s great to see the Government at least experimenting with one of them. Improving productivity to deliver high quality buildings at a reasonable cost is also obvious but seems hard to attain in practice, and is not something that can just be decided by the Government.
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Another plan. Yay!
If memory serves, it was announced that Ireland had a housing crisis when Simon Coveney was Minister for Housing in 2016.
Why has it taken nearly seven years for serious action rather than tinkering around the edges? A man could be forgiven for thinking that the delay was ideological in nature, and this action is a result of dwindling support in the polls, which may be viewed as “too little, too late.”
10 years to fix it, only considering it now cause it’ll cost them an election, get fucked FFG
Lol I am sure this will actually make things better. I really hope we vote these idiots out next election as they deserve no less.
Just one more election cycle and they will have it fixed.
Oh and here’s some moon and stars while we are at it.
Surely at this stage they have to acknowledge the “housing for all plan” has failed? Like how many revisions to it and missed targets have they had already
It’s still tinkering around the edges.
Why not treat housing as the emergency it is and build directly (or employ European contractors to build for them) on government owned lands.
Use significant portions of the windfall corporation tax (€12 billion this year maybe higher next year) to build them. It’s a perfect capital project for non recurring tax receipts. Instead of putting this money into national pension fund – rent/sell the properties to teachers, nurses etc at cost prices plus nominal interest rate.
I was involved in property in London and saw an Irish company (ballymore) construct 1000s of dwellings over a couple of years.
Money can’t solve everything (health system) but can definitely go a long way towards solving housing crisis if ambition was there to do it.
As for planning / we saw how laws were amended/passed quickly to deal with Covid – can we not treat housing crisis as emergency and do similar.
It’s a load of bullocks. Incentives and breaks for private developers
Just get the state to do the developments and stop using public money to enrich the developer’s
Jesus fucking christ.
For the last goddamn time, anyone who can build, ***is building***.
You’re not going to make headway on the supply front until we have bodies on sites who can actually create supply.
We need more sparkies, plumbers, carpenters, roofers, etc. Put the money into the trades you gutted you fucking numpties.
Behind a paywall. Not a subscriber, so I cant read the article….
“As part of the changes, a person could buy a property, get the grant, renovate it, and then rent it on the long-term rental market. “
Where are they getting these houses in the first place? There’s no stock?
There is a perceived lack of supply due to the hoarding by the vulture funds…
You couldn’t make this shit up…
It’ll probably be the usual fiscal transfer to private developers and they’ll continue charging the same prices.
Anything, ANYTHING to avoid actually building new social houses
They’ll end up spending a billion a year on convulted schemes and rebates and tax acrobatics if it meant they don’t have to build council houses. As the surplus grows to 20billion a year.
This crisis is 100% an ideological choice by FFFG not to build plain old fashioned council housing. The cost stopped being an issue years ago.
Another demand side measure that will just increase prices and go into some developments pocket
Is that the 1 billion they didn’t spend last year
Didn’t they have a massive budget to address the housing crisis in the last one or two budgets that has went completely untouched?
Until I start seeing foundations laid and building sites filling up left right and centre unveiling this or that amount to address the issue will just continue to be seen by me as them trying to bullshit us due to these past lies.
Developers should need to post the infrastructure costs unless all the housing is allocated to first time buyers or other qualifying people
It’s about time. The economics of building homes commercially for typical families have been completely screwed up by huge development levies, VAT and demanding building standards.
Something has to give if we want the private sector to break out from its anaemic levels of output and deliver large numbers of homes for families on typical levels of pay. Dialling back development levies and removing VAT on new homes are the obvious measures with potentially high impact that have not yet been tried. It’s great to see the Government at least experimenting with one of them. Improving productivity to deliver high quality buildings at a reasonable cost is also obvious but seems hard to attain in practice, and is not something that can just be decided by the Government.
Oops, all semi-ds’ in Sandyford.
Its a decent plan.