Housing Madness

He thinks it is unfair and I do see his point.

Yeah it was interesting but there was a fair bit of bias. The house in Cork they were complaining about was actually in use as a car park so would not be classed as derelict like they said. Just saying that as something to note that they casually ignored.

Central Europe has tons of ghost town and you can go to expensive areas in Europe and they have lots of derelict property. When I went to Brussels I was very surprised out home many derelict buildings were about and the same with Madrid.

A house cannot be a car park so let's settle that for a minute. The house was derelict. Whatever about the property out front. How that got planning for use as a car park is another story.

Bias only in a sense that property owners are flouting the system to extract maximum profit whilst offering absolutely very little to the local communities their properties are in.

Its wrong whatever way you paint it.

These types of units add 4 or 5 short term parking for whomever. But have a falling down and in many cases burnt out building next to them. That's utter madness. Owners have to be penalised. **** or get off the pot simple as that.

The landlord can't know why they get HAP. If he is stating he is filling in a form saying she is a single parent report him not the tenant.

A couple of questions.

1. Are they recently qualified and don't have a deposit saved up?
2. Define striking distance?
3. Are they setting their sights too high? What I mean by that is are they expecting to buy the Taj Mahal beside where they work or do they need to set their sights a little lower. I just looked at myhome.ie and I've seen a good few houses for under €200k within an hours drive of Galway.

The reason I'm asking this is because things aren't so bad that two professional people earning good money can't afford to buy a house somewhere within commuting distance of work.

1. I take it these people coming over have visas and are going to work in low paying jobs?
2. Would you prefer we return to Magdeline Laundries again instead of homing people?

There is plenty of housing to house people in the cities the occupancy rate is very low. There is no will to do it because it would mean encouraging OAPs to downsize. Even when it was suggested people went crazy suggesting it was a bedroom tax.

It would be much better for society if we encouraged principal private residence use rather than more. (than we already do) incentise property as a business tbh. So no I disagree with the notion that we should continue to fund developers to own en masse and wait for loop holes or incentives to appear for them to make a quick buck. It's an arseways system that encourages mis-use or no use at all of valued land inside zones where residential use should be the primary function.

No idea why SF were raised as I don't think they were part of the program nor I a member or voter.

In terms of funding as I said we need a national strategy and we need to borrow on the markets at negative or zero rates as a country to encourage uptake to revitalise main streets high streets and through a fares nationwide.

Enough giving money to individuals sitting on multiple properties we've done that already for a long long long time. It hasn't and doesn't work. And yes Dublin City Council should be penalised and or bypassed too.

Big stick and big rock approach across the board. This is a housing crisis its simply not going to be solved by single theme thinking. And at the moment build to rent is that single thinking. It's ridiculous

Not what I said at all. I am just pointing out your claims don't match up with reality. How much are they wanting to spend on a property? You state good wage and can't afford anything doesn't cut it. How much are they earning and what can they not afford. Never mentioned rich parents so I don't know where that came from. I know people without rich parents who bought property. A friend recently bought a house in Dublin 3 and she is single and works as a career in the HSE. Not big money and her parents didn't give her money.

So you are for the state forcing CPOs on people with multiple properties?

What would you consider an acceptable commute?

From 2015 until 2021 I commuted from South Leinster to Dublin. Almost 1.5 hours each way. Yep, it was tough, not going to deny that. I changed jobs about 5 months ago and now commute approx. 45 minutes each way. I would consider 45 minutes an easy enough commute.

My point is that a very quick search on myhome.ie showed that there are houses within what most people would consider an acceptable commuting distance to Galway and at an affordable price (for two people with good jobs), so it's incorrect to say they can't buy a house. What is more accurate is that they can't buy a house their dream house in their preferred location and for a price that suits them.

Claremorris to Galway is approx. 60km. Not much difference to my commute. But like you said, you don't think that's acceptable. That's your choice.

For the record, I bought my house with no help from my parents. Not because they didn't want to help, but because they didn't have the money to help.

I'll be honest here. It's difficult enough on the median wage (around €40k) for one person to buy a house. Buying a house is a two-income job for many people. But if both people are in steady employment and have average jobs, there should be no need to go to the bank of Mummy and Daddy to get help to buy a house unless they want a flash house in a desirable location.

We'd all like to have a mansion beside where we work and not have to commute, but this is the real world and people are going to have to 'cut their cloth according to their measure'.

Why is living in Claremorris, Ennis or Athlone unacceptable to you if you don't mind the commute?

And less of the 'nobody cares about anyone but me' sh1te.

So a call for more muted and sustainable growth equals communism in your book?

It must be nice to only see black and white in the world.