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Here come the shills to tell us all that our housing crisis is not the fault of successive FFG governments
They need to build more housing. A lot more. And make much of it social.
Financialisation was one of humanity’s biggest, direst mistakes. We should never have done it as a species and it feels like it’s almost impossible to reverse it without a genuine *shock* societal upheaval such as a world war, natural disaster, etc.
The fact that the trading of basic things (and makey-uppey representatives of assets) has become a more ‘important’ element of how the economy works than the creation or usage of them is absolutely fucked. *Fucked*.
It is ridiculous that the actions of a relatively small group of humans making bets at a glorified casino which only *represents* real life things has the power to make a country rise or fall. It’s utterly insane. And tying housing up with that system was one of the most idiotic decisions ever undertaken by humans.
Why aren’t there enough private builders building houses?
Just to add on top of this the mainstream political parties wonder why the far left, and the far right, populists, nationalists are all on the rise and how to stop it, if you want to take the bullets out of the chamber to neuter these groups you to need to acknowledge the issues that drive these parties in popularity and deal with them in some reasonable way, in this particular case housing. Pissed off people will vote with their anger and annoyance which doesn’t always end up well. I think in comparison to Europe Ireland has avoided this so far thankfully.
I know people say it’s a global problem but what, 50 years ago, didn’t we build loads of council houses?
Why can’t we do that again?
We need to follow in Vienna’s lead with social housing. They’ve done it right and as a case study, people’s quality of life has substantially improved.
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Damn FFG and their Pan-European housing policies
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This is in the same category of
Article as ‘look, the pubs in the Netherlands are closed, we’re not the worst!’ – completely ignores our enormous clusterfuck of a situation
Here come the shills to tell us all that our housing crisis is not the fault of successive FFG governments
They need to build more housing. A lot more. And make much of it social.
Financialisation was one of humanity’s biggest, direst mistakes. We should never have done it as a species and it feels like it’s almost impossible to reverse it without a genuine *shock* societal upheaval such as a world war, natural disaster, etc.
The fact that the trading of basic things (and makey-uppey representatives of assets) has become a more ‘important’ element of how the economy works than the creation or usage of them is absolutely fucked. *Fucked*.
It is ridiculous that the actions of a relatively small group of humans making bets at a glorified casino which only *represents* real life things has the power to make a country rise or fall. It’s utterly insane. And tying housing up with that system was one of the most idiotic decisions ever undertaken by humans.
Why aren’t there enough private builders building houses?
Just to add on top of this the mainstream political parties wonder why the far left, and the far right, populists, nationalists are all on the rise and how to stop it, if you want to take the bullets out of the chamber to neuter these groups you to need to acknowledge the issues that drive these parties in popularity and deal with them in some reasonable way, in this particular case housing. Pissed off people will vote with their anger and annoyance which doesn’t always end up well. I think in comparison to Europe Ireland has avoided this so far thankfully.
I know people say it’s a global problem but what, 50 years ago, didn’t we build loads of council houses?
Why can’t we do that again?
We need to follow in Vienna’s lead with social housing. They’ve done it right and as a case study, people’s quality of life has substantially improved.