The new housing crisis

JupiterKid

After the property bubble and subsequent crash and slow recovery, there appears to be a housing crisis emerging.

Rents for residential properties in Dublin and, to a lesser extent, in the other Irish cities are climbing sharply and many are being priced out of the private rented market. Many are calling for rent controls. Others are calling for increased density residential development in city centres and along public transport routes and others are calling for more social housing.

What do AHers make of this new housing dilemma? Do you offer any solutions?

darkpagandeath

The Governments solution is to build a load to terrible unsafe shoe box apartments apparently.

jamesbere

There's a new one, I haven't finished the old one yet.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

JupiterKid wrote: »

After the property bubble and subsequent crash and slow recovery, there appears to be a housing crisis emerging.

Rents for residential properties in Dublin and, to a lesser extent, in the other Irish cities are climbing sharply and many are being priced out of the private rented market. Many are calling for rent controls. Others are calling for increased density residential development in city centres and along public transport routes and others are calling for more social housing.

What do AHers make of this new housing dilemma? Do you offer any solutions?

Rent controls, ideally, as without them Dublin will just eat itself as London is doing, but it doesn't do anything to address the supply/demand issue. Increased density residential develpment sounds like the showboxes someone else mentioned and I don't see how social housing helps?

Ideally, improving the infrastructure around the suburbs of the cities and some form of decentralisation so that people could commute and live away from the centers would be my bet.

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wil

JupiterKid wrote: »

After the property bubble and subsequent crash and slow recovery, there appears to be a housing crisis emerging.

Rents for residential properties in Dublin and, to a lesser extent, in the other Irish cities are climbing sharply and many are being priced out of the private rented market. Many are calling for rent controls. Others are calling for increased density residential development in city centres and along public transport routes and others are calling for more social housing.

What do AHers make of this new housing dilemma? Do you offer any solutions?

NEW?

It was new in 2012/2013

Then those who hadn't noticed are calling for 152 crossovers, tapas and gocations

Streetwalker

We are incapable of governing ourselves properly its no wonder we have nowhere for our peoples to live but yet we continue to vote in the same political organisations that bring us disaster rinse and repeat style. Nothing changes only the faces.

darkpagandeath

Streetwalker wrote: »

We are incapable of governing ourselves properly its no wonder we have nowhere for our peoples to live but yet we continue to vote in the same political organisations that bring us disaster rinse and repeat style. Nothing changes only the faces.

Sure were about to start taking in loads of Immigrants to as were nice like that. I wonder to banks and alike take nice as a currency.

nokia69

this was always the plan

Fianna gaelbour want NAMA to make a profit

keep voting for them suckers

The_Valeyard

I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

Slydice

Shur while Eurostat was out calling the Irish Government on Fraud over Irish Water, they also released that we're the new champs in House Price Increases.

Go us

The figures are here: http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=prc_hpi_q&lang=en

This is what our house price increases look like:

Slydice

Slydice wrote: »

Shur while Eurostat was out calling the Irish Government on Fraud over Irish Water,...

Of course, they didn't ever do so...

4068ac1elhodqr

Housing Pods perhaps or stacks of Japanese style 2m sq cubicle hotels maybe?