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UK fund snaps up 85% of Dublin 17 housing estate originally aimed at individual buyers

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    #302
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,088 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121626341#Comment_121626341

    That still doesn’t mean you deserve one. Ireland is not the same country as it was in the 90’s, nor during the recession when prices were low but banks wouldn’t lend. I saw in an article recently that 350k new jobs were created in Ireland between 2019 and 2023, they, and all the other extra million people in Ireland since 1990 are your competition for that house with two gardens and a drive for your car. Reality check kid, you are no more deserving of that house than anyone else looking for it.



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    #303
    Cheddar Bob
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭Cheddar Bob


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121626376#Comment_121626376

    I've got my house.


    I happen to think everyone else who grafts deserves one too.


    If we're backsliding so much in living standards, sure let's do away with the winter fuel allowances. Most of these old people grew up in the 40s and got by regardless when there sometimes wasn't enough wood or coal for the fire, and now they need free money for central heating?


    They don't know they're born.



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    #304
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,713 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121626376#Comment_121626376

    Tbf that's not entirely true with the promotion of the concept of land lording as a commodity driver at scale. You're competition isn't Joan and Alan and their two kids. It's institutional investors and medium to large landlords. A concept that is very new probably 25 years old. And incentivised which is bizarre considering how vital homes are as a cog in normal economic activity. Not just an ireland people btw.



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    #305
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121626368#Comment_121626368

    Regarded as ludicrous by who? It has been abundantly clear that we can not house the population in semi-Ds for decades and was driven home by the time of the GFC which left us with empty estates of them massive distances outside Dublin which was the only place they could realistically build them at the time. But it turned out that that was shite for everyone.

    Anyone who thought we could build a house for every family in 2020 was deranged.



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    #306
    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭standardg60


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121626354#Comment_121626354

    Snobbery is exactly what SF and others use to separate people, only it's reverse snobbery. 'Ordinary' working people, whoever they are, should class themselves differently and consider themselves more deserving to special treatment. Over who? Anyone they think has done better than them.



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    #307
    Cheddar Bob
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭Cheddar Bob


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121626629#Comment_121626629

    But yet most council homes provided nationwide today are terraces. Apartments would still only dominate as 1 beds.



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    Cheddar Bob
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭Cheddar Bob


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121615736#Comment_121615736

    So you're 30 odd.


    Do most people you know your age rent?


    Probably.


    I'm failing to see your societal outlier status here. It's hard to be despised by society when most of society is in your same boat.

    The sheer lack of houses for the open market in Dublin being started in 2023 (it's somewhere below 4000, hard to tell until completion and who buys up what) shows that if you think we have too many renters now, we have seen nothing yet.



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