The government is hoovering up too much housing - the private working taxpayer is hurting

You asked: "Blaming immigration for what, exactly?" Well if we look at your statement:

You appear to be blaming immigration for the need to invest more heavily in services.

If being on the dole is so cushy, why don't we all go on it and get free houses?

I agree that the government treats working people much worse than it treats the long term unemployed but we have the biggest number of single & childless adults living in this country than weve ever had before & single people cant afford to buy a house or apartment on their single wage. As a result of this majority of single adults are living with their parents, renting in over crowded accommodation or are homeless & way down the bottom of the list for supports because they dont have kids or a sever medical condition. The charities that buy up homes, most of which are new builds, are the likes of Cluid & Tuath that rent out homes at 30% less than the market rate, this is still massively over priced for most single working people & they dont accept hap. The government needs to allocate more housing to single, childless adults before we have a big crisis of homeless elderly people with no family to take care of them. This is already beginning to happen.

You use the word blame incorrectly.

There is no blame.

Don't you get it? There is not any blame.

If we are to increase our population, we need to increase our services.

That is all.

That is also what the article is saying.

Some of the anomalies are insane.

A woman working for me lately told me you can get childcare subsidised if you’re NOT working. The idea is that it frees you up to look for work, but obviously people who are working need that much more than people who aren’t.

Until recently, and it may well still be the case, if you went back to college from unemployment you were exempt from fees, but you had to pay if you had been working. So your options were restricted rather than enhanced if you contributed.

Part of the problem is indeed excessive immigration putting strain on services and housing, but it's immigration policies (or lack thereof), not the immigrants themselves that are the contributing factors.

Maybe you should consider that it may just be partly true???

Most folk are happy enough when they figure that they and theirs can get along and find their way in life, working and paying their way. But when this cohort start getting affected as they are currently, attitudes change and harden. It's no surprise at all and quite justifiable.

A state's first priority is to it's own citizens. Then secondly & looked at baldly, a state's second priority should be to healthy citizens who are actively contributing to society and/or taxes. Keep these in balance and healthy and a state thrives. Ignore these priorities and allow them to be abused and then a state and it society starts falling apart.

The state has no statutory obligation to the family with working parents, whereas it has to make provision for those who can't provide for themselves adequately. The only power the family with working parents has is at election time and then they are conflicted as to whether to support parties that might keep them in work and those that promise 'solutions'.

Services and infrastrucure. Housing included.

Its not just immigration policy though. Its the fact there is no real infrastrucutre investment to accord with the growth in population.

Most people dont have a problem with population growth, as long as our housing and services grow in lockstep with it.

Jesus, the whack of snobbery off this.