Housing solution

looksee

I have just solved Dublin's housing problem. There are reports of cruise ships - vast floating blocks of apartments/hotels - being scrapped as there is no sale for cruise ships in the current climate.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/cruise-industry-downsizing-begins-with-first-sale-of-a-ship-for-scrap.

One cruise ship - couple of thousand apartments - in Dublin Docklands it would look very much part of the scenery!

Risingshadoo

I wouldn't buy it.

Lyan

Knowing the government and politicians, the apartments would likely be considered below standards of regulation and shut down after moving everyone in.

Rodney Bathgate

No doubt the people on the list would turn down the accommodation for good reasons like no space for trampoline.

Kylta

Good idea, until all the sh!t and the rubbish clogs up the liffey.

Your Face

And then sink it.

Rodney Bathgate

Your Face wrote: »

And then sink it.

Rent increase - who here wouldn’t pay extra to live under the sea?

Kylta

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Rent increase - who here wouldn’t pay extra to live under the sea?

Can it please be next to the octopuses garden.

Rodney Bathgate

Kylta wrote: »

Can it please be next to the octopuses garden.

Yes, but you know what they say - ‘location, location, location’. Proximity to the octopuses garden will push the rent up further.

Chinasea

Personal responsibility would be a good place to start.

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!

Why can't we build a whopper sky scraper in Dublin, Cork and Galway. 100 storeys tall.
Apartments in them will be available to all with rent payable calculated with an open transparent formula.

They will be available for homeless, for brain surgeons, for students or for tech workers.

RWCNT

Does nobody else think living on a cruise ship could be cool?

Kylta

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Yes, but you know what they say - ‘location, location, location’. Proximity to the octopuses garden will push the rent up further.

I suppose if they scuttled the yellow submarine I could live in that, and maybe iciuld seduce a few octopus to play in my new plastic garden. I could collect all the plastic the cruise dwellers dump in the water
And make an entrance gate out plastic pepsi max bottles, and I could charge fish and folks into it. Hey I could be the first underwater entrepreneur. I think I just lost the run of myself there

Rodney Bathgate

Kylta wrote: »

I suppose if they scuttled the yellow submarine I could live in that, and maybe iciuld seduce a few octopus to play in my new plastic garden. I could collect all the plastic the cruise dwellers dump in the water
And make an entrance gate out plastic pepsi max bottles, and I could charge fish and folks into it. Hey I could be the first underwater entrepreneur. I think I just lost the run of myself there

I think Mr. Krabs would argue that he was the first underground entrepreneur. The rest seems okay.

At long last a thread about housing that hasn't been done before!! Well done OP! I think your idea is utterly daft but your thread is great

Notmything

We could even put the least desirable elements of society on it and let it sail off into the sunset.

Housed and a free holiday, how could they complain.

I hear the Irish navy needs target practice

uch

I've a better idea, get the Torys and their new friends to build more houses, can't believe no one thought of this before, I'll accept my medal and cake in Miggledys house after the covid has died down, thank you so much for your nice words

0xzmro3n4y7lb5

Idea already floated and rejected

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/city-council-refloats-idea-of-housing-homeless-on-cruise-ship-1.3650716

endacl

RWCNT wrote: »

Does nobody else think living on a cruise ship could be cool?

No. I've been on a cruise ship. Grand for a week, but the rooms aren't that big. It'd basically be shared accomodation with thousands. Most of the rooms wouldn't even have a window. Fcuk that.

Junkyard Tom

It's a free society, 'cept there ain't nothing free cos there's no guarantees, you know? You're on your own, it's the law of the jungle.

worded

Will there be a duty free shop on board?

If so I’m in, take my money

hi5

Zariah Clumsy Smartness wrote: »

Idea already floated and rejected

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/city-council-refloats-idea-of-housing-homeless-on-cruise-ship-1.3650716

Governments have no interest in solving the housing problem, it would cause values to drop and many people who are a lot more influential than the homeless would be very unhappy with that.
What ever happened to the modular house idea?

looksee

I posted half jokingly, but I wasn't thinking of dumping homeless people, I was thinking of running two or three cabins together into an apartment, making them desirable with ready social areas, gyms, shops etc. Those enormous cruise ships are built like blocks of flats anyway with windows and balconies.

looksee

looksee wrote: »

I have just solved Dublin's housing problem. There are reports of cruise ships - vast floating blocks of apartments/hotels - being scrapped as there is no sale for cruise ships in the current climate.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/cruise-industry-downsizing-begins-with-first-sale-of-a-ship-for-scrap.

One cruise ship - couple of thousand apartments - in Dublin Docklands it would look very much part of the scenery!

Hmmmmm. Is it next to mammy? Or mammys grave? Is there room for a trampoline or a pony? If not, then I’ll stay in this B&B until I get what I want.

Marcusm

looksee wrote: »

I have just solved Dublin's housing problem. There are reports of cruise ships - vast floating blocks of apartments/hotels - being scrapped as there is no sale for cruise ships in the current climate.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/cruise-industry-downsizing-begins-with-first-sale-of-a-ship-for-scrap.

One cruise ship - couple of thousand apartments - in Dublin Docklands it would look very much part of the scenery!

Kitchens?

Spanish Eyes

Seasickness tabs on the menu. But I like that idea. The Greenies might come on board (ha ha) in order to reduce the environmental impact of cruise ships traversing the globe too. And help solve the homeless issue at the same time.

Where will they berth though? God forbid it would be anywhere near certain places. Wink!

Bobblehats

They can all get ****ed man I’ll tell ya.

5 to 1, baby. One in 5..

Lockheed

Notmything wrote: »

We could even put the least desirable elements of society on it and let it sail off into the sunset.

Housed and a free holiday, how could they complain.

I hear the Irish navy needs target practice

Call it the Fletcher Memorial Ship

0xzmro3n4y7lb5

looksee wrote: »

I posted half jokingly, but I wasn't thinking of dumping homeless people, I was thinking of running two or three cabins together into an apartment, making them desirable with ready social areas, gyms, shops etc. Those enormous cruise ships are built like blocks of flats anyway with windows and balconies.

Use the cruise ships for holiday lets. Let city residents live in the apartments that were being used for Air BnB.

Dravokivich

Chinasea wrote: »

Personal responsibility would be a good place to start.

You think someone who cant afford accommodation is
not a person capable of being responsible?

SlowMotion321

endacl wrote: »

No. I've been on a cruise ship. Grand for a week, but the rooms aren't that big. It'd basically be shared accomodation with thousands. Most of the rooms wouldn't even have a window. Fcuk that.

Ditto! not to mention that the corridors between the rooms on either side are just wide enough for two polite people to pass! Two ignorant fcukers and you have a serious traffic jam;)

smelly sock

Notmything wrote: »

We could even put the least desirable elements of society on it and let it sail off into the sunset.

Housed and a free holiday, how could they complain.

I hear the Irish navy needs target practice

Politicians , bankers and developers?

Sounds great.

biko

Sounds good.
Fill them up.
Ship to Van Diemen's Land.

The Tetrarch

Disappoint this thread is not about building 100,000 houses for no money to give to people with no money.

SlowMotion321

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Disappoint this thread is not about building 100,000 houses for no money to give to people with no money.

Pfft! Why be practical about the solution, we have yet to have a government who is!