Can Sinn Fein fix the housing crisis or is it beyond them or anybody else?

There is no magic political bullet to sort it out. It’s basic economics. The cost of building is very high and never in history has a country been able to give everyone a house on the cheap. Even fully communist countries where the state owns everything. So don’t believe anyone with simple solutions. If you want to own a house it will cost you most of your income when you’re young full stop. Has always been the case and is so the world over. Ireland is no unique.

Ffg are a proven joke. Against new housing everywhere. Sf the same no doubt. Non of them will deliver proper infrastructure, capable of supporting high density. Cost of construction is far too high, yet nearly every time standards change, it's to an "increased" standard, pushing the price even higher. We need masses of studios and apartments, reclaim the family homes in cities for families! Who wants to be in dingy house shares into their thirties and forties... better off in a modern contemporary smaller space on your own...

Yeh but, yeh but the opposition Brucie...wot about the opposition?

The, 'it's everyone else's fault but the actual parties that have shared the power in this country for 100 years' line again.

And we have seen FG FF fail completely and it is more than a suspicion that they want it to continue failing as their actual members are profiting from it (Troy etc)

So do the electorate see this.

I think the electorate will once again see that this is what is going on here too,

They'll try and mask their failures with the 'it's the shinners fault' mantra.

In my opinion the issue is this it's a problem that neither a leftist nor a rightest ideology can fix. Because BOTH ideologies are contributing to the problem at hand in different ways. There is a lot of ideological bs and bitterness to wade through on both sides.

Well their main issue ideologically will in my opinion be this. To actually do something they will need to offer tax breaks to the building industry get rid of a lot of red tape. They will seriously need to sort out a number of bodies like an taisce and the planning bord. Which would mean firing a lot of civil servants. Then will they will have to get to task on the dept of housing....imo an taisce the planning bord and the dept of housing should be one body. They keep suing each other and its getting ridic.

It's too easy for people to make objections to planning. Some of the land zoning regulations need to be looked at.

Also Ireland needs to diversify where we put our money. A lot of people invested in property because they didn't know where to invest or couldn't invest anywhere else. Property does well against inflation whereas a lot of other investment options don't. Americans invest in the stock market Irish people tend not to and when we do ...we invest in property funds. And its mostly RESIDENTIAL investing.

When you look at commercial property and the rent prices there the difference is STARK. Offices in the middle of town that are like the size of four apartments and they are going for 1500k to 2000k per month including bills and sometimes even a receptionist desk that is operational as part of the deal.

Over 90 % of the social housing due to be built by 2021 has not been built. So these people need to enter the private renting market. People complain about 'oh they get houses for free '. People dont realize social housing actually makes their own private rent cheaper too by keeping some people out of the private sector.

Another reason its expensive isn't really talked about ....we all know we have high inflation well some of the reasons we have high inflation in my opinion is the degree of public private partnerships gone wrong. For example the govt renting hotel rooms for kids in foster care or for refugees. Its a disaster. THAT is precisely why hotel rooms in Dublin are 400 euro per night Hotels don't have to compete when they get that kind of business. And they know it. And I know that hotels are not paid the full wack by the govt for that service. But its something they rely on. When YOUR sector has just gone through a hugely defining moment like a pandemic crushing tourism and you come back with basic rooms at 400 a night ....someone is propping you up. A lot of public private partnerships are DRIVING inflation. It means people don't have to compete with others for the services they provide.

Another issue is a lack of natural resources driving inflation we have no gas no oil and are an island that has to import it. That costs. Now either we get better deals we go green and we STOP privatising and start going back to state bodies....or we go broke.

A lot of privatisation is driving inflation. GPS dentists etc all private ...you wanna see a GYNO ...for a smear privately once a year ..500 euro. THAT DRIVES INFLATION. The middle class don't want to admit it but the privatisation of what in other european countries are state bodies in this country is driving inflation. We don't have oil like the states nor the population buying and negotiating power. Often people don't realize HOW lacking in natural resources Ireland is. We have perhaps some resources that could be reached through fracking ...Ireland has banned fracking for ecological reasons. Now that might be the right thing to do I am not sure. Other European countries though like france and poland have not banned fracking. They say they have ways of doing it without the damage to the environment. I can't say again. If there are ecological arguments we have to answer to those. But ecologists also have to answer to the economic ones.

When inflation rises RENTS rise. When petrol goes up when gps fees go up RENTS RISE.

Now there is another issue. A lot of building companies in Ireland were crushed in 2008. The cost and the ability for builders to find financing now is harder. ALSO they used to find it a lot in london with brexit that is harder.

Now another huge issue is STATE TAXATION STATE TAXATION STATE TAXATION ....this figure SHOCKED ME Between 13.5pc VAT, charges on materials, labour, tax on builder's profits, and the aforementioned local authority charges, it has been estimated by the construction sector that directly or indirectly, the State takes almost 40pc plus of the money paid over for a new home. ALMOST HALF! It doesn't take a genius to work out that is the state driving inflation through taxation. And no i don't expect SF to deal with that or admit it. Just like i don't expect FG /FF to admit that privatised a health service etc also drives inflation.

The dumbest **** is ..that with all the tax they are claiming from the housing industry they STILL can't seem to use it to fix the homeless issue caused by the inflation caused by the taxation of the housing industry.

Also those demonizing landlords. Look im sure there are some who are awful but most are not. With tax insurance and the time it takes etc there isn't a lot of money in it. It's somewhere to PUT your money ..and sell when prices are topped out. The reason landlords leave ...a lot of the time ..is because they think their investment has topped out. And small landlords get ripped of by companies too. And the funds investing ...are mostly made up of normal people not rich people. But they are managed by banks.

I don't expect SF to handle the high taxation situation on goods and income ....maybe they will handle getting some proper state bodies for things that should not be privatised.

Maybe if we elected an extreme leftest govt then an extreme right govt one after the other we can keep things in balance!