'I pay €700 for a bed in a room with four people'

Fine Gael and Fianna Fail property developer cronies, they want totally unlimited immigration and no building of houses, they wan't no small time landlord either. These people are so corrupt it is unreal. They are the enemy of the people. Everyone in the same boat and bringing in thousands of scammer immigratns pretending to be refugees ontop of the genuine Ukrainians and Latina students like this has the country at absolute bursting point. There needs to be a marshall aid type plan to start investing into proper infrastructure, motorways and railways, build high rise and a common sense immigration policy that deports anyonje who comes expecting welfare and free housing after say 3 months. Work or go home and the same for Irish work or no benefits. Slash and burn the nordic social model and use tax revenues to grow the economy with infrastructure instead of diverting it all into corrupt cronies pockets. Ireland does not give a crap about refugees or Ukrainains it is all about how much money politicians friends and family and donators can get off the govt teat.

Are we willing to accept less in Ireland in terms of accommodation? I think so.

I think so too.

2005.

I'm in Dusseldorf. 1,100 cold rent a month for a nearly 100m2 apt. It's 10 minutes walk from the equivalent of Templebar and Grafton st.

Employers are breaking the rule all over the shop and there is no enforcement since revenue are getting tazes, the vast vast majority of those English schools are engaged in visa fraud and are visa factories, most of the Brazilians and other Latinos are working far in excess of the 20 hours, working deliveroo or working cash jobs like cleaners and caring for the elderly. Only the minority of them are young genuine students with rich parents funding them to study actual proper English, the rest are economic migrants up to 50 years old abusing the English language visa scheme, no other country except Ireland allow language students to work also.

They go to sham schools and their classes exist of semi-illiterate teachers showing them things like Derry girls, tours to the Guinness factory (yes!). A total scam again designed for FF/FG scum landlords to rip them off, everyone except the political elite cartel of politicians, businesspeople, shareholders, high ranking civil servants and the legal profession are all involved and benefiting. Everyone else is being exploited, if your from a crappy Favela in Rio then peddling a deliveroo around Dublin and saving €100-€200 per month seems like huge progress in your life. They want to work and fair play to them and I would have no problem rewarding work. The problem is the welfare tourists from the middle-east and sub-saharan countries like Somalia who abuse the system, don't work and show up without documents or claim to be persecuted LGBT for asylum purposes when in reality they are islamic homophobic bigots themselves.

The housing crisis coupled with open borders is going to cause alot of huge social problems going forward and the working and welfare classes are now backing the likes of Derek Blighe whilst the bourgeoisie in places like Dalkey benefit from it but the squeezed middle class poor lad is hammered in taxes to pay for it all. The brightest and best are leaving again as Ireland is so corrupt and the housing crisis coupled to inflation has left it practically impossible to survive and work and you would want a minimum of €20 per hour to have a fighting chance, no wonder so many give up and become dole lifers.

There won't be high prices when the money runs out. Blood from a stone cannot be gotten.

Even if the money were magically infinite, all younger generations down are going to wallop these greedy shaisters when leadership is passed.

This is not an ordinary political situation. This is a multi level crisis, years in the making, reaching its conclusion.

So either the hysterical greed is punished soon or it is punished later. Whether it comes down to mass asset seizure, new targeted taxes on inheritance, migration freeze, deportation, citizenship rewriting, who knows. Consequences.

The one thing you can bet on is that this is not going to last longer. It could never have lasted.

I know it's not a solution to the overall problem, but why aren't the Universities and IT's lumped with the student accommodation issue? Why aren't they being forced to find, fund and build student accommodation? I don't understand that part. I know they have some, but they should have enough for everyone. That would free up the public market then. Granted, free it up to fill it with random immigrants, but still, might open up a few places at least.

Any "landlord" forcing what's happening in the OP (if real) should be prosecuted. Surely a H&S issue at least?

Immigration is just one aspect of the current accommodation shortage. There are other factors to consider that are probably more significant.

1. Landlords expectations. A future election of a Sinn Fein government and/or property referendums and with prices so good, now is a good time to exit before becoming trapped with further rent controls in a high inflation environment.
2. Refurbishment: Many properties built during the Celtic tiger boom have exhausted their tax schemes and are now due for some refurbishment work, this is to be expected after 20 years. Property is generally a depreciating asset unless you maintain it.
3. Interest rates, rental yields, REITS: The low interest rates and rental yields have attracted foreign investment funds, many rental properties are being sold to German, Israeli and French funds, including the pre-63 stuff. There may be other consideration for tenants. This is one of the major consequences of ECB negative interest rates, they destroyed the bond market and the pension funds need yield to meet their obligations in an older, greyer Europe.
4. Refugees: The fees paid for refugees are €100 per night,  €135 if the landlord provides food, get 2 to a room and let the taxpayer funds roll in. There are some operators in this game who will buy up existing rental properties, and insist existing tenants are cleared first. This competition has an impact on the availability of property for those on the HAP scheme.
5. Taxation, insurance and regulation: The days of the slumlord are gone, taxation on "unearned income" is 52%. Enforcement of safety regulations and council inspections have increased, the maintenance cost with that overhead has increased.

There is a lot going on and you cannot attribute the current situation to one causal factor.

Property developers want no house building.... Riiiight

With no end in sight.

There are 28 properties to rent in Cork city. 1 for every 4.5k people which is just insane. I remember renting in 2014 and it was tough then. Maybe 800 a month to get a nice one-bed in Dublin county. Its doubled since then.

That's nothing. Sure I paid 700 quid for a bed in a room with 4 people for one hour before.

The moral of the story is that hookers are expensive, even in Moscow Hotels.