Can the housing crisis be ever sorted. Post three suggestions.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119918580#Comment_119918580

Have heard of the National Ambulance Service?

riclad

People on the housing list are either living in rental accomodation ,in hostels or living with relations , telling people to live in a park makes no sense. Some people live in tents because they don't want to use hostels for various reasons .

Apiarist

1. Build student accommodation in the city centre and near main high school centres, enough to house all students that need housing. This will make the rental market much more stable, with no mad rush in the autumn of students to get any place to live.
2. Build council housing and rent them to working families at max 30% of combined income and no more than would be paid in a typical 25 year mortgage repayment. After 25 years *of paying rent* give the house to the family. Not paying rent on time --> not getting the house to own later. Allow trading housing to facilitate people moving to other areas.

Both of my suggestions cost money initially, but should pay for themselves over the years.

A bit left field and not suitable for very urban areas but would work in a lot of areas, local authorities to develop small individual sites with services and sell them at a reasonable cost to individuals they could put a self build, or modular house, or a scanhouse, anything as long as it passes building regs and is can be mortgaged. https://www.scanhome.ie/. The advantage of that is it could be done over time and would work for those with a low income as the sight development costs have been absorbed by the local authority.

In inner city areas something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDYku-zZ-F0 its tiny but perfect for a single person.

An acceptance that we live in a capitalist society.

riclad

Someone needs to design a self build house that's made of recycled materials and energy efficient and publish the plans on a website

give more tax credits for self build houses if your income is under 50k

More tax credits to people who refurbish old derelict buildings for housing

Greyfox

The government needs to wake the f*ck up and Build, Build and build some more, if we got a massive loan from the EU to fund all this it would be money well spent.

Loads and loads of high rise is required, we're at the point were working people would be delighted to own a modular home or even a bedsit, things are that bad. Ireland needs to actually start treating the issue like a crisis.

Emblematic

Some great suggestions already posted.

1. As others have suggested, streamline planning process and reduce acceptable reasons for objection. Also increase zoned land and encourage medium-rise buildings.
2. Allow agricultural land to be used for specific types of housing. Eg. towable tiny homes.
3. Move away from amateur landlords towards professional fund based investment. Provide tax incentives for Irish people to invest in such funds and have government as partners.

griffin100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119920953#Comment_119920953

The National Ambulance Service manages HSE ambulances. Dublin City Council via Dublin Fire Brigade manage their own ambulance service. Now why we need 2 services is a different question.

Buster197456

Best one get dublin city clowns out of the way. Bring in proper boys as in professionals not circus clowns,

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119921768#Comment_119921768

I think DFB provide ambulances as a service to the HSE with HSE paying.