Battle of the O’Briens.
If the banned new builds being sold to anyone other than owner occupiers they would solve most of the housing crisis overnight.
The “most vulnerable” and
“disadvantaged”
yada yada
Is this the one in Raheny? They belonged to the school, a private entity, and the school sold that land on as was their right. It was one of the lesser used claims as animals people have never heard of are supposedly at risk. That's not to say the developers have not been tried to squeeze every last apartment out of the site. There's a compromise there but some are just outright NIMBYs. Once upon a time St Anne's had a great composting facility which was shut down because of alleged smells.
Gas if it wasn't so infuriating. And there is such an easy solution. Provide PPS number to receive social housing, then unpaid rent is collected by Revenue from wages or Social Protection from welfare. But will it be done, of course not as that would be "right wing".
You obviously don't understand the zoning element.
Sports pitches won't be zoned for residential, if they are, then the plan is to build residential on them, the objection should be with the zoning council.
But this is not the case with most objections.
They are already talking about speeding up the planning process to streamline objections (right now objections occur at many stages which amounts to a filibustering tactic).
If we’re honest we know that the social housing system is been scammed and abused for years.
Everyone knows it.
Stay in a hotel for a year and get a brand new 3 bed house for pittance.
Move the fella in and live a very comfortable life while not really contributing anything worth while.
Yes yes I know not all the people do it blah blah.
But a massive chunk do and it’s getting worst.
Not the same but worth posting for people claiming site levy's and taxes will help us out of this mess:
"Cork County Council collected just €900 of €308,000 from charges related to the derelict site levy, a local authority audit has found."
This is going on at all levels just look at how the state institutions react when there is a whistleblower and a light is shined on some of what they get up too. I do have to say that is a bit hard to see latest models cars in driveways of people who are living in social housing. When you see others struggling to do things the right way.
I'm just curious as to how any Council tenant can, just like that, stump up that type of money.
This the fraud you know about. Imagine how bad it actually is.
The councils need to get the finger out and chase these people who are not paying. Can they not go to court and get a payment order where they can deduct the money at source rather than waiting for the tenant to pay?
The council secured 12 repossession orders in the courts last year, while three ‘lump sum settlements’ of €30,500 were made
Gas altogether
So there should be no objections allowed to any housing at all so if a developer wants to build on grounds that are sports pitches they should be allowed and no one should object?
Bit OT, but if you can show payment history, banks will take it into account, most important is a good, verified, track record.
I don't think getting mortgages is generally the problem (and it can be more difficult for the self-employed for example) but the limits on the mortgage which are dictated by the central bank to ensure the payments are manageable, these limits keep a lot of people from being able to bid on property (which are also bid on by funds), the big answer to all this is to stop the NIMBY-ism, stop the objections and get properties built, anything that doesn't involve increasing supply won't work and will just favour one group over another with who gets it first.
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By the looks SF have the best shot at ousting FF/FG.
Served FF and FG well. Best of a bad bunch and not being the other one is why they got in.
One thing I don’t understand- ok we need private sector credit to build housing, fine. We should be using lots more public money to build, rather than rent social housing at extortionate prices, but whatever.
But how come in the boom years lots of that new housing was for sale, and now it seems to be all to rent from vulture funds? Especially with apartments.
Agree there is no easy solution to the mess but FG surely have to take massive responsibility for being in government for 10+ years and failing to plan ahead. The supply of housing on the market has just gone lower and lower every year under them.
And Micheal Martin has to take responsibility for stopping construction for half of last year for no bloody reason other than being afraid, and also for being in cabinet the last time this country imploded.
Btw I have no faith that SF will do any better, and O’Broinn annoys me. But would appreciate if someone could answer the building for sale/building for rental question.
They would be expected to be the second biggest party, with very well-managed vote management maybe the biggest. Labour and the SDs tap into the same pool and an increase in seats for Labour reduces the possibility of SF being in government. The SDs are a niche party, really an electoral machine for the two ladies. Both parties though could be approached about a deal with the other two centrists and they'd be reliable enough unless a matter of "principle" showed up.
I might just be incredibly misinformed.
I'm in Ireland and not looking but ya a lot of my renting was abroad.
Do banks have the same criteria for borrowing in Ireland, as for you in the UK? Or are you looking for a mortgage here, based on living/renting abroad?
How do you go about becoming a teacher without a third level qualification?
Yes, they are certainly filling a vacuum at the moment, but that is an unstable way to build support.
All that example really proves is how much the government is creaming off the top with taxes for doing nothing!
Why are SF the only choice?
There are Labour/SDs on the actual left
the political left have always had a major communication problem, as can be seen with o'broin, hes a smart chap, and is well informed, but.... but im not sure the electorate give a sh1t at this stage, particularly those that are getting screwed by all of this, its a vote of anything buy ffg, at this stage, and sf is effectively the only choice now....
I would suggest the average punter couldn't care less about any point scoring and is more concerned about the complete balls up housing is.
I don't think either of them came off well, so would not put one down as winner over the other. What was more noticeable was the contrast between the two - O'Brien comes across as a bit of a waffler who can throw out buzzwords without really saying anything of substance vs O'Broin seems to have put more thought into the detail but struggles to say anything concisely. Net result is the same in that he says little of substance.
There is another more important contrast between the two. O'Brien is a Celtic Tiger era homebuyer and will likely look after his own, O'Broin is a renter and equally likely to look after his own.
They haven't gone away you know.
"Notorious cowboy builder Tom McFeely is refusing to stop illegal demolition work in a conservation area near Queen's University in Belfast."
A but like Provo child abusers back in the day, it seems that all you have to do is change jurisdiction and away you go.
"low margin"?
Lending banks expect property developers to show a 15% margin on estates.
On a selling price of 340k, or 300k less VAT, that is 45,000 per house.
I would not call that low margin.
On a development of 50 houses, that's over 2 million profit for the developer.
The Shinnerbots in Putin's bot factories love O'Broin mainly because he reminds them of the heroes of the Soviet Union they learned about growing up in the Russian education system.
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