Don't buy in a new estate

I grew up in socialized housing, the place was a real kip...still is, drugs, crime, regular petrol bombings recently. My parents worked hard to get out of it and we move to our own house, I've had crappy jobs myself, making the lattes and wraps, my job wasn't near my house though, I had to use public transport and even thumb a lift sometimes, it was horrendous, I really should write a book about it. But then I got an education then a professional job, and after working for 13 years bought my own house, a similar story to most people who buy their own house I'd imagine.

If I'd known that I was entitled to live in a houses worth many hundred of thousands of euros, just because I was making the wraps and the lattes for people with professional jobs I would have stayed doing that.

Socialized housing should be stepping stone for people trying to better their lives, handing people houses worth the same as those with high earning jobs and saying it's necessary is a bit of stretch.

Maybe the thickos aren't upset about the foreign investment in Irish housing because that's what was basically supporting the construction industry for so many years when not much else was happening, and in the unlikely event that we ever experience another recession, we might actually need that foreign investment again

Cool story bro,

I also grew up in council housing and we also moved out. The area isn't a kip isn't full of drugs and provided and still provides housing for thousands of working people. From bus drivers to school cleaners .

My grand parents also got social housing in the 50s and same story there.

But it would be the usual speel from the folks like yourself who thing foreign investment is propping up the building industry. It's not. Theyre buying stuff out from under private people. Entire estates being purchased off the plans for rental only. You seem to think that's good. It's evident you don't actually have a grasp of the subject matter.

And all the gribbing in the world about social housing isn't going to fix the market where wealth funds are operating world wide hoovering up housing stock. This isn't an Irish phenomenon it's everywhere. The fact lower income people can't even buy a house if they wanted to is because of this policy which you have an abject hard on for..

Gas, cutting the nose off to spite your face. Maybe we should just put people in camps. Many many camps.

Suggest you do some reading up on whats actually going on in the Irish housing market. Might make your commentary less me feiney and more balanced

I don't think you really grasp what social housing is.

In a way many of us benefit from people in social housing - care staff in particular, people in necessary but low skilled jobs - cleaning staff, manufacturing staff, some retail staff and many other sectors.

They will not travel from westmeath to Dublin for €11/hour.

Many in social housing work, but their earning power simply would not allow them to live in or near the areas they work. Current maximum net income limit in Dublin is about €36,000 to qualify and you would pay rent.

Now, I personally think there should be size limits on social housing at 100sqm and 3 bedrooms and only in certain cases it should be 4 bedrooms. And I also think that there should not be social housing within high end estates as the money spent on some houses could buy 2 or 3 houses elsewhere, but i simply don't buy the scaremongering "houses will lose value" statements