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The Constitutional Right to a Home

suicide_circus · 2019-05-20 09:32:33

There is currently no specific law on the books that gives people a right to a home in Ireland. In 2014 The Constitutional Convention voted to have the right to housing...“expressly stated” in the Constitution. In 2017 the dail rejected a bill which sought to make housing a constitutional right. What say you, After Hours?…

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#122 22-05-2019 1:33pm
Chinasea

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dotsman wrote: »

Despite the rhetoric of those on the left, it is not "the government" or Finn Gael etc who control the housing supply in this country. It is the councils. It is the councils who set zoning, plan urban infrastructure & grant planning permission. It is they who keep slowly tagging on inadequate offices and housing to stupid places on the outskirts of our cities. It is they who leave much of Dublin City centre (and similar with our other cities) as low-density 1, 2 & 3 story housing, most of it being given away for free as housing for welfare and low-pay working class instead of converting it to large apartment and office space. It is they who refuse to let builders use the little available land effectively and build up.

Who are they? They are Sinn Fein & Friends. A collection of some of the most stupid, annoying and useless socialist & anarchist leaders ever. Who would rather cause international incidents in the middle east, sort out booze for their mates and attend regular meetings and protests about the government than actually start doing their jobs. And there is a very real fear that, next week, there will be an even more useless and ineffective mob in power.

On top of this, over the past number of decades, successive left-wing policies has convinced a sizeable minority of people that they don't have to take any personal responsibility in this life. That they can simply shout and receive. That playing the victim is far better than getting back on your feet. That we should ignore the age-old saying "give a man a fish..." and instead promote inter-generational welfare dependency. The very same people who deny us adequate housing supply, are the very same people as those who promote and benefit most from the homeless industry.

But hey, blame it on the evil "right-wing" Finn Gael/government. Because that attitude always solves problems.

Amen

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