Social Housing and the Housing Crisis

theguzman

https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2019/0519/1050398-wexford-housing/

I was watching the News this evening and there is outcry over a Private Developer choosing not to to sell houses for to be used as Social Housing. The estate seems to be quiet a nice development, imagine you might buy a house there for €210k - €265k (as it mentions in the article). You bust your gut every day for the next 20 maybe 30 years trying to repay the mortgage or maybe it was your life savings already or money inherited etc.

How disgusting would it be for you to see the house next door then let out to some socialised tenant for under €50 per week, or you might be renting privately there for €200 - €300 per week yourself.

I am firmly in favour of cutting back heavily on the social housing spend and like Margaret Thatcher implementing a mass Privatisation of the current social housing stock. Allow people the chance to own their own homes for the first time in their lives or in multi-generation cases. Force these people to take responsibility in their lives and give them something to lose for change.

I was in Dublin yesterday when a group of Housing Marxist agitators completely blocked the O'Connell Bridge, it severely disrupted my travel and I had to take a taxi instead. The taxpayer should not be responsible for housing people and there needs to be a thing called personal responsibility.

Skylinehead

There's enough housing threads and dole-bashing threads out there.

Oh and one more thing, the next time you soapbox about "marxists" you get banned.