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It’s a disgrace that cuckoo funds are still able to buy houses during this housing crisis.
@Munster1: Agree, plus they were given an exemption from paying ‘stamp duty’ by the current government which would make you wonder are FF & FG against future generations owning their own homes?
@Munster1:
Cuckoo funds don’t stop people getting homes, maybe it is not ideal that people are renting over buying but this common place on the continent…
The reason people can’t find homes is supply and demand.. Whatever about the Government plan (which got killed in COVID), Sinn Fein’s is the magic house building in our dreams… Their housing plan doesn’t make any sense…
They want more houses to be built (by the Government) and make it harder for Banks to lend, harder for landlords to rent… So they want to squeeze the rental market even further (this will cause homelessness) while the government will have to provide you a house cause banks will be more restrictive.
To get one of the magical social houses sometime in the future and if the country is run like NI, you better know a guy.. Tell him you are all about ‘the cause’
@Cowboy Paddy: there are some deluded cowboys talking utter balderdash in the comments…….
@Cowboy Paddy: not stopping you buying a home cuckoo funds just misreading their offer 30% higher than yours..your defending the indefensible during a housing crisis
@Brian Burns: increasing
@Cowboy Paddy: nice attempt Darragh O’Brien , try harder.
@Munster1: exactly, the rest is all brim and bluster
@Cowboy Paddy: aptly named – a Cowboy response from a Cowboy FFG administration. It used to be SF’s magic money tree. Now its SF magic house building plan?
Meanwhile, the Cuckoo Funds cant believe their luck with the magic accommodation made available to them courtesy of FFG. They know the owners of the real Irish money tree and its linked dream housing policies!
@Angela McCarthy: all I want to know is the free 4 bedroom house 5 doors up from our mother’s that SF are promising, will the indoor swimming pool be heated or not?
@Brian Burns:
Please state what you think the crisis is…
Is it people have no homes OR people can’t own there own homes?
Those funds (which are institutional investors e.g. pension funds) rent those houses to people so they can have homes… They don’t take houses and refuse to rent them.
As for people owning there own homes…Is the solution of having the Government build borrow money and build 100,000 houses and then sell/gives them cheap to people they deem worthy
OR
The developer builds 20% extra houses, places a margin on the other 80% (i.e. increases the price) sells them to a young family (who government deemed not worthy ) and sells/gives the cheap house to the people it deems worthy?
And this should be not even up for discussion? Cause I’m raising questions on it and all I get is insults…
Immigration has always being FFG policy to deal with younger generations. no matter which cheek was in government or played at opposition. Keeping its own voters on side with 5 euro pension increases.
Now that todays youth want to stay and live in Ireland FFG has no response. Turning housing into a profit revenue for investors and pension funds was always going to squeeze out family’s looking to secure a roof over their children’s heads.
Only by changing government policy can anything happen. ‘Housing for all’ sounds good but never achievable under FFG.
@leartius: yes Brian Leninhan senior advocated this 40 years ago{
Did Leo object to some development a few years back, in his own backyard.
@The Shadow: well I’d object if someone started developing in my own backyard as well
@The Shadow: Yes he objected to a local development but it’s ok when he does it because something something Sinn Fein something something..
https://www.thejournal.ie/castleknock-planning-varadkar-burton-3646235-Oct2017/?amp=1
@The next small thing: Nothing wrong with objecting as is your right but everything wrong with objecting and complaining when others do the same..
@The Shadow: I’m not sure but I know Eoin O’Btoin did alright.
In fairness, SF councillors do seem to object to a lot of housing developments in Dublin
@Michael Carty: you need to look into the details of why though. It’s not because they fancy objecting to things for no reason!
@Angela McCarthy: They have shot down HLI projects which are a good idea in my opinion, but they want to build more 100% social projects that we will be knocking and rebuilding when they turn into slums in 30 years.
@Garret Fawl: Not if they are planned for and built correctly. more or less same developers will be building all projects anyway.
@Angela McCarthy: I disagree, the long term effects of pure social housing are well known and documented. Diluting social housing with private is far better in the long run. The only other solution is to build social housing that anyone can apply for and not just people with low income, the Vienna model I think it is called. But pure social building for low to no income users is a disaster and costs more in the long run as it creates ghettos.
@Angela McCarthy: It’s not the physical construction that’s the problem it’s the concentration of low income families in one area. Here in Galway off the western distributor road there are two relatively recent similarly aged adjacent estates, without naming them, one built exclusively for social housing by the city council and the other mixed and privately constructed. I have an acquaintance in each estate and have visited both. The city council one is a social and economic disaster zone with boarded up houses, drug dealing and all the social ills we associate with such developments. The mixed estate on the other hand is like all of the other private estates nearby with well maintained houses, apartments and common areas and a general air of good quality harmonious suburban living. Anyone who supports the SF model/theory of social housing development should visit there and observe at first hand the practical reality of their proposal!
@Mary McDonagh Faherty: You mean like social housing like Eoin O brion himself did. I suppose you can’t have the lower classes around him especially as his wife is a landlord.
Anyone else find it hard to believe the two parties who have been in power since the foundation of the country are trying to blame opposition parties who have never been in power for the complete failure of their own policies? Housing crisis? FFG say not us it’s SF. Healthcare crisis? Nope not FFG again it’s all SF. You would think the way FFG go on that SF have always been running the country.
@Wade Wilson: You need to be reminded that the Republican movement did not recognise our state and were for most of the time referenced carrying out a violent campaign of murder and mayhem. It is easy to talk about other parties history when you delude yourself about the actions of SF and others that led to to death of so many innocent people.
@camio55: So you agree with FFG, it is after all the fault of SF. As you say, people need to be reminded the republican movement of 30 years ago caused the housing crisis of today.
You definitely went to the same school as M. Martin didnt you. you poor little thing.
Two “people” going for a house. One doesn’t have to pay stamp duty & has a guaranteed rental income from the government on the property, no questions asked. The other is restricted in what they can borrow & must pay hand over fist every step of the way. Hmmmmmm. Easy answer, level the playing field (or better still structure it in favour of my countrymen) or just come out and admit, as a government, you don’t care about your people.
Why can’t there be an even-handed approach to rent caps? Either rent caps don’t apply to a lot of landlords or many are non-compliant, or maybe it’s both.
They see the crisis as collleteral damage, they don’t care about homelessness, the Irish have been sold out
@Ian Hester: it’s worse then that unfortunately. They don’t see it as a crisis at all. Just a successful and expected outcome of their housing policy. We are where we are by design and until people realise this and stop voting for FFG, things will continue to deteriorate.
Hey see the homeless as collleteral damage only for their failed policy they just don’t. Care….
Should be an easy enough fact check Journal, either its 6,000 or not !
@John McG:
So there is some basis in fact..
@John McG: Fine Gael’s Emer Higgins objected to the Balgaddy-Clonburris plan for 8,500 houses. That’s one FGers objection alone.
@John McG: Eoin o’ Broin himself put in an objection to social housing being built is his constituency. They souldn’t suit the area
@Roy Dowling: Is this the one you are talking about?
@Cowboy Paddy: Not exactly an objective source though, it says ‘a Fine Gael report’.
@Cowboy Paddy: politicians from all political parties have objected to various developments. However, it does seem SF has done it for legitimate reasons like, for example, undervaluing land and selling that public land to a private developer rather than building state housing. Or trying to work with locals to get a development that everyone could live with: i.e. listening to their voters and trying to represent them. Varadkar, on the other hand, felt the need to object because a development wasn’t “suited” to the neighbourhood in his opinion and would reduce the market value of homes in the area, etc. All these things need to be evaluated in their real context and not just randomly referred to without giving details
@Cowboy Paddy: How does a statement by FG against SF constitute a fact check?
Are you suggesting the Irish Times conducted its own fact check before publishing, Or is it more likely that the paper and Fine Gael were together wilfully misleading its readers/voters?
Not just low income. Im.a doctor. I average 12-13hr days on top of study and training..i don’t have the luxury of working from home or moving outside a larger urban area…As a single person home ownership is looking more and more unattainable to me, I’d literally be no worse off financially in very real terms if I worked a 9-5 in an office somewhere …and I’d have a much better quality of life than working fir the HSE. Most days I wake up thinking “why bother” i love my job but it’s stressful, thankless and I have little to show for it at the end of the day.
Poor old Eoin is showing signs of fraying a little recently. First he misspeaks on Jarry before Christmas, then he gets outdebated by Darragh O’Brien…yes that Darragh O’Brien….on RTE in the past few days, and now he throws his toys out of the pram in the Dail today. Most unlike the Steve Silvermint of SF. Losing his lustre perhaps?
@David Finn: Were you watching the same TV housing debate on RTE as the rest of us. If shouting down your opponent every time its their turn to speak, constitutes winning a debate, then you are right O’Brien won it hands down.
Unfortunately for FF’s Darragh O’Brien though, most people dont judge debates in that way and rather saw it as the Minister as not having the confidence to debate the facts with his opponent as others might have hoped and expected him to.
Now you say he has thrown his toys out of the pram by calling M.Martin out on his lies? M. Martin as we all know and can see, is the one losing the plot when he has to resort to his wild fantasy accusations, which are getting wackier by the day.
If Boris Johnson hadnt already used the gag, I would have half expected M.Martin to abuse Dail privilege one of these days by somehow linking poor Mary Lou to Jimmy Saville. By the way Dave, are you sure you are not Darragh O’Brien yourself?
@Angela McCarthy: I wish Angela. Chance would be a fine thing on his salary! Nevertheless it has been interesting watching O’Broin’s halo dim in recent weeks.
Was it Coveney said, there would be no family’s living in hotels by August. That was in 2018 I think.
OK so the state owns lots of land around the country so why don’t they sell the land to the people directly Instead of big construction companies at a very reduced rate and let them put log cabins on them or cob houses or concrete houses.Now it’s kind of pushing the housing problem down the road for about 25 to 50 years giving them time to sort out the crisis properly. Also its the peoples land anyway. Then an amnesty can be giving on planning for these homes. Simple sorted!!! But ffg and the greens could give a crap about its citizens. They want us to own nothing and want us all to live in big towns and cities. Just get yer fingers out of yer holes and sort this. Or else we need to protest like the canadian truckers until we the people demands are meet. People are the power not the people in power
Ructions????
Seems to me that there’s a central issue at the heart of housing – not just in Ireland but everywhere – that no party or individual, Government nor Opposition are willing to address. Namely that homeowners and people hoping to buy have very different desired outcomes.
Homeowners largely want house prices to continue to rise without check as this increases wealth / reduces debt ratio, whereas people hoping to buy want prices to stay as is or at least rise in line with wages (as was largely the case in most Western economies until the 1980s).
This is simplistic I admit and I’ve no solution to this quandary but I suppose it comes down to which cohort of society are more likely to be a party’s prospective voters.
I’m not sure of the solution, I’ve heard of rent-controlled State housing proposed as one alternative but having lived in Stockholm where that’s in place it just seemed to led to people renting a cheap apartment while saving for a deposit, then subletting it out for 3-5 times the rent charged by the municipality.
@Sam Kendlin Hobbs: For instance I’d a ’firsthand’ muncipality contract for 3000kr/€300 a month whereas neighbours across were renting theirs from the original tenant at 12000kr. Though probably still more palatable than cuckoo funds buying housing estates as in that F, A & H sketch…
@Sam Kendlin Hobbs: It definitely feels as if the greed of older generations are inhibiting the basic needs and growth prospect for the younger generations.
Politically there’s no solution that will satisfy both sides so decisions will have to be made.
Continuing to favour the retired group sitting at home watching their assets increase in value while contributing nothing to society would make very little sense would make very little sense in a societal, and we’re already seeing the damage of that with emigration and anti-work sentiment. Young people who can’t realistically ever afford a home are losing motivation to work a 9-5 low income jobs now. Why bother when there’s nothing to work towards?
It feels as if the housing crisis is going to cause untold damage to society in general moving forward.
@Rochelle: Retired people contributing nothing… cop on, what a statement
@Rochelle: “the greed of older generations….” What a load of codswallop. Most people that buy a house do so to provide somewhere to live for their family so that they don’t have to rent forever. They couldn’t care less if the value goes up or down as long as they can pay the mortgage. It is not the fault of the older generation that property prices have increased beyond the reach of our younger generations. Yes by all means blame the government for their years of mismanagement but it is certainly not your parents or grandparents fault.
@Alan Byrne: It is if they’re voting for the parties maintaining and exacerbating the problem, which they overwhelmingly are in those age groups.
Shower thoughts: Are upwrong truths the opposite of downright lies?…
@Nameo Maximus: No. Downright is one word, not two, and it’s opposite is upright.
It is great to have a SF leader who is “sick of getting things right”. Arrogance and pomposity are limited or of no value when actually trying to govern.
@camio55: I think you slipped a bit there Camio. You probably really meant to say that FFG are sick of the SF leader getting it right and they getting it wrong all the time.
Perhaps you should explain to them that their arrogance and pomposity in resisting alternative opinions, is no substitute for wrong action and consistent opinion poll figures are probably trying to tell them as much!
No, the CC didn’t ask Catherine Murphy to restore some order. He said maybe we’ll restore some order now with Deputy Murphy. This was after eob retracted the lying claim but replaced it with deliberately mislead which he also admitted was the same thing. Disgrace it was allowed to stand.
Why is it not acceptable to accuse anyone of lying in the Dáil but it’s acceptable to lie?
@Rob Gale: because of a lack of proof when making the accusation, that’s why. If I just had an opinion that you were lying and I told the whole of the place were were in, in front of you, with no proof, that you were lying, would you be ok with that? Of course you wouldn’t. Same applies in the Dail. Eob has no proof the government lied. You know what a lie is?
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