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Do NIMBY's have a right to complain about housing crisis?

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  • #182
    [Deleted User]
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    doublejobbing 2 wrote: »
    We keep hearing that "the young can't afford a house" but this clearly isn't entirely true.

    Plenty of young must be able. Otherwise houses wouldn't be sold.

    Down the country most young people can afford a house. The cheapest 3 bed in Mullingar, which is basically a Dublin commuter town, is 118K. A couple on minimum wage can buy that with an 11K deposit. The rest of the country is even much cheaper.

    It's mainly a Dublin problem.

    Why should someone have to commute to Dublin to work, almost half way across Ireland, passing thousands in their free forever homes beside their ma, that our commuter has help pay for?


  • #183
    doublejobbing 2
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    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    Why should someone have to commute to Dublin to work, almost half way across Ireland, passing thousands in their free forever homes beside their ma, that our commuter has help pay for?

    Oh they shouldn't. I'm fully in favour of social and affordable housing. But the media portray affordable housing for young people as a nationwide problem when it is really solely a Dublin/ Cork problem.


  • #184
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,831 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    A local residents’ group has initiated a challenge to planning approval for an apartment development on Dublin’s North Circular Road on grounds including it may negatively impact on local bat species.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/residents-oppose-plan-for-32-apartments-on-north-dublin-site-1.4485475?mode=amp

    I'm sure they care deeply about the bats


  • #185
    Kermit.de.frog
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    https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1361751459092705280

    WHAT DO WE WANT!? MORE HOUSES!

    WHEN DO WE WANT THEM!? NOW!!

    WHERE DO WE WANT THEM!? NOT NEAR ME!


  • #186
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,195 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1361751459092705280

    WHAT DO WE WANT!? MORE HOUSES!

    WHEN DO WE WANT THEM!? NOW!!

    WHERE DO WE WANT THEM!? NOT NEAR ME!

    Pretty much sums up the attitude of the protest parties.


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