The eviction ban

And then you have this stuff: 22 house ghost estate in the middle of Portroe, Co Tipp

Too far from D4 for Nama to be arsed

There has to be some kind of planning for these kinds of things. Administrative decisions are made which give massive value to property. The other side of that though is that people cannot be allowed to hoard property to hold the rest of the population to ransom.

For example, in the past, speculators would buy property in certain areas and just sit there for a decade or more and allow it to go derelict. If planners decide to provide for a new estate and ringfence areas for say shops for that new community, you shouldn't allow a scenario to develop where a speculator goes in and buys up the commercially zoned part and decides to sit on it to see if it will appreciate over the long term when all the people living in the houses need those services to be up and running.

I stand by my original statement and you haven’t provided anything to disclaim it.

You tried to use Maggie cash as an argument and you were pulled up by numerous posters.

A fool you say…

that makes zero sense, if the rental cap is fair then you will still have those who wish to rent on both sides

you should set market rates, this is the point

allowing new rental to be the only ones who can gouge is what causes the issues

make it fair for renters and landlords

Why don’t they just build council estates. It’s so obvious it’s what needs to happen. Immediately brings down the price of property too so that more folks on medium wages can then sort themselves out through renting or borrowing. It’s **** stupid that they won’t just do it and sort out the problem.

I agree with jinglejangle. Families don't live on the streets.

They are prioritised. And get a hotel room, or at a minimum an indoor place with living facilities until something permanent is filled.

Am I saying it's acceptable? No. Not one bit. But no family is forced to live on the street.

You mentioned Maggie Cash, a bad example.

Another example you gave was news article 1. A man that has been funded by the state for 11years and was allegedly caught with 1.6k of coke and 6000 cash. As per the Irish independent. Did he make any decisions that affected his situation do you think? The poor children. But that man got himself into that position. They too were then offered accommodation and turned it down.

Next thing he's in a news article putting the pressure on. Very Maggie cash no?

The other two articles, we don't know the people involved, but both are put out by charities that receive money for homelessness. I'd assume their motive is same as Maggie cash and Alan Fitzpatrick. Let me know if you can say otherwise.

Very easy for Alan Fitzpatrick found with 6k cash to get in the tent, snap a few photos and drive back to the parents gaf after.

Homelessness is terrible. But these press articles have a motive behind them. If you're grand with someone taking off the taxpayer, committing crime, long term unemployed, in a house for 11 years and then turning down accomodation and going to a newspaper, we'll agree to disagree.

Someone is crying for coke dealer Alan Fitzpatrick.

posters coke dealer's hatred pours out of the screen

If anyone can provide housing cheaper and profitable than "the majority of Landlords". They should go do it. They'll clean up if you are correct.

I'm not seeing many coming forward.

They wont build council estates because that leads to ghettoisation, the policy is now to buy to have a mix of private and public housing in estates. I am sure some folks have all the details around this.

The main problem is that they stopped building social houses and the social houses they did have they sold to the people who were living in those houses and then effectively used the private rental market to house new social tenants which meant anyone looking to rent is just going to the one market, its the same now for buying houses because buyers are not just going against other people to buy the house but councils as well. Also making bedsits (even though not nice) illegal they pushed a lot of people out of that accommodation and again into the private rental market.

They do need to separate the rental market into public and private and allow people the access the market that is affordable to them. We can't have everyone hitting the same market. It is the same for the housing market as well so that people can buy in the market that is affordable to them.

What about the landlord who was on the radio yesterday, he is 11 k out of pocket because his tenants refuse to pay rent and there was nothing he could do about it.

Scumbag tenants like that are just as bad as a landlord who screw over a decent tenant.

And people who rent out properties they own outright with no mortgage..?

It's called market forces and property values can go down just as quick as they go up.

Whatever way you look at it LL are putting in their own money in buying properties and choosing to rent. It's no difference to any other enterprise

who offer a service to the public and expect to make a profit. LL are not the problem yet they're being demonised.

The Government has failed people badly over the last 30 years on this issue and 50 years in dismantling Council building and maintenance programs.

Where is the drive to encourage Apprenticeships in the Skills needed to ramp up the building of Housing stock.

Yet they keep taking in more people from abroad when we can't even house our own. I'm not talking about the War, That's a seperate issue.

The same people crashed the Country in 2008 and left us all to pay for their mess. This is just history repeating itself.

Poor Governance from TDs who continue to allow minorities run the country to their agenda.