Literally nothing we didn’t know. Ireland’s infrastructure is about a generation behind what’s needed to secure our societal and economic future.
Welcome to Ireland where the solution is easy but it’ll take 50 years to fucking solve it and people wonder why people leave this country when they are young and never look back.
*”Do you think that’ll stop me”*
In fairness though, it’s not something that can be fixed overnight.
It was threatening it probably 8 years ago. Now it’s actively hurting it.
Why do they say “threatening” as if it’s not already damaging everything but landlord’s and hedge fund’s pockets
The m50 / m11 should have been built with extra lanes – like it sucks to commute on those, I’ve only been back on them a handful of times since the pandemic but each time around rush hour it was a nightmare. I’m glad the pandemic ended that daily hell for me
Vulture funds need housing to live on
This is the one reason that might actually force the govt into action. Homelessness and a generation living with their parent couldn’t do it but slowing down the economy just might
Yeah, no shit Sherlocks. I actually thought this might be the aspect that drives change in Ireland given that the Government prioritise business over people every time, but not even that could drive change.
So glad bedsits went away
People should try cutting expenses in order to save for a mortgage, there were people on a thread yesterday saying they get their hair cut every two weeks!
Why are some Irish renters paying Canadian pension funds? Why are some Irish renters paying vulture funds? What is the obsession with supporting private landlords, large and corporate, or small?
We do need landlords in Ireland, but they should be large state-owned landlords.
In Vienna 60% of people rent from the government in this fashion. Cost rental is the norm there. It should be the norm here. Same in Amsterdam – high-quality, well-managed apartments with profits (and they do make a profit – these are not free) going back into improving and extending the housing stock, not paying off private investors.
They don’t talk about housing disasters over there.
The annual reminder of something we already knew….
The media is stuck in a perpetual mode of surprise because anything further would upset the government’s feelings.
If someone upset a fascist TD would it be hate speech now?
The government have merely been commentators on housing. As long as their rent roll increases the landlord tds don’t care.
The shite transportation system is also threatening our competitiveness internationally. I’m living 3km from Dublin City centre but it takes me an hour to get into town. People genuinely wouldn’t mind living further and further out if they could get into the city for work in a reasonable time frame but the system as it is right now is simply not fit for purpose.
Can people please stop posting links to paywalled articles please?
My company literally had to put a block on us hiring in foreign colleagues because there was literally nowhere for them to live when they got here. It badly affected the business with staff shortages and increased turnover from the stress this caused existing employees.
Greed is threatening Ireland’s competitiveness (there fixed it for you)
I know of people who have been offered 100k jobs that would have them move to Ireland and they turned them down cause of cost of living and housing.
I mean, it’s also threatening people’s ability to live in houses, but sure maybe appealing to money will work better given this government’s apparent priorities.
We have the same issue here in the United States. If you keep supply low then demand skyrockets and you can jack up rental rates, it’s no coincidence that a lot of these banks and investment firms also own construction companies and property management firms. If you control the supply chain i.e. funding,construction and sales/rentals then you have no incentive to compete.
In other news water is wet
Razor-sharp analysis lads, now go back to 2005 and do something about it.
They only just figured this out?
Ahh now they’ll change it up for the good of their money. Fuck the homeless kids but God save the euro
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Literally nothing we didn’t know. Ireland’s infrastructure is about a generation behind what’s needed to secure our societal and economic future.
Welcome to Ireland where the solution is easy but it’ll take 50 years to fucking solve it and people wonder why people leave this country when they are young and never look back.
*”Do you think that’ll stop me”*
In fairness though, it’s not something that can be fixed overnight.
It was threatening it probably 8 years ago. Now it’s actively hurting it.
Why do they say “threatening” as if it’s not already damaging everything but landlord’s and hedge fund’s pockets
The m50 / m11 should have been built with extra lanes – like it sucks to commute on those, I’ve only been back on them a handful of times since the pandemic but each time around rush hour it was a nightmare. I’m glad the pandemic ended that daily hell for me
Vulture funds need housing to live on
This is the one reason that might actually force the govt into action. Homelessness and a generation living with their parent couldn’t do it but slowing down the economy just might
Yeah, no shit Sherlocks. I actually thought this might be the aspect that drives change in Ireland given that the Government prioritise business over people every time, but not even that could drive change.
So glad bedsits went away
People should try cutting expenses in order to save for a mortgage, there were people on a thread yesterday saying they get their hair cut every two weeks!
Why are some Irish renters paying Canadian pension funds? Why are some Irish renters paying vulture funds? What is the obsession with supporting private landlords, large and corporate, or small?
We do need landlords in Ireland, but they should be large state-owned landlords.
In Vienna 60% of people rent from the government in this fashion. Cost rental is the norm there. It should be the norm here. Same in Amsterdam – high-quality, well-managed apartments with profits (and they do make a profit – these are not free) going back into improving and extending the housing stock, not paying off private investors.
They don’t talk about housing disasters over there.
The annual reminder of something we already knew….
The media is stuck in a perpetual mode of surprise because anything further would upset the government’s feelings.
If someone upset a fascist TD would it be hate speech now?
The government have merely been commentators on housing. As long as their rent roll increases the landlord tds don’t care.
The shite transportation system is also threatening our competitiveness internationally. I’m living 3km from Dublin City centre but it takes me an hour to get into town. People genuinely wouldn’t mind living further and further out if they could get into the city for work in a reasonable time frame but the system as it is right now is simply not fit for purpose.
Can people please stop posting links to paywalled articles please?
My company literally had to put a block on us hiring in foreign colleagues because there was literally nowhere for them to live when they got here. It badly affected the business with staff shortages and increased turnover from the stress this caused existing employees.
Greed is threatening Ireland’s competitiveness (there fixed it for you)
I know of people who have been offered 100k jobs that would have them move to Ireland and they turned them down cause of cost of living and housing.
I mean, it’s also threatening people’s ability to live in houses, but sure maybe appealing to money will work better given this government’s apparent priorities.
We have the same issue here in the United States. If you keep supply low then demand skyrockets and you can jack up rental rates, it’s no coincidence that a lot of these banks and investment firms also own construction companies and property management firms. If you control the supply chain i.e. funding,construction and sales/rentals then you have no incentive to compete.
In other news water is wet
Razor-sharp analysis lads, now go back to 2005 and do something about it.
They only just figured this out?
Ahh now they’ll change it up for the good of their money. Fuck the homeless kids but God save the euro