Life passing by people in their 30s

All very true.

It must be near impossible to save for a deposit in Dublin AND pay rent at the same time.

I really think the govt should broaden the help to buy scheme to give additional support for single applicants.

Thats the point, it SHOULD be banned for the professional classes as well. The solution is not to make the most vulnerable live in worse conditions and bring everyone down to slums. The solution is to provide decent public housing to everyone who needs it. Or to bring back large 100% mortgages to renters with a track record over years of paying more than that in rent.

No, Id rather be in a hotel than share. No family should share in the 21st century. This country is a disgrace.

If the state approves of such living conditions it normalises it. The answer to poverty is not to impoverish more people

The lack of empathy is shocking. You are using the housing crisis to punch down on poor people. Im screwed by housing and working for every penny I have every day of the week, I would never condemn more people as some sort of warped solution.

How about they house share the poor in the mansions in D4 with elderly rich people living with lots of spare rooms? Everyone would have much more space that way then they would in a council house in Tallaght.

Clown. Your views are why we have this crisis. Had we kept building social housing instead of shouting about "free houses for lay abouts" we wouldnt have a housing crisis in the first place

I agree we should have kept building council houses.

You seem to be advocating an end to house shares for everyone?

Where would we put everyone, if we did that tomorrow?

You're losing fifty percent of your salary over a pittance here, i.e 42k. In a country with outrageous living costs. Salaries in general are crap. In relation to the trades, yeah... money is on another planet... honestly. If you're in any way decent, you can pull in 500- 1000 per day... plumbing would be great one. When you get an emergency leak and its fixed half an hour later, limiting damage to your half a million euro shoe box in dublin. Will you be on your knees thanking the plumber or begrudging giving over e200 or e300? ....

Conventional easy street option in years gone by , you'd have muddled through... now, you're a poverty case. Young people need to be very aware of this with their decision making...

3 options. Large salary with a partner. Accept living at home or in house share forever or until you receive inheritance, might not even be enough. Option 3, graduate, leave Ireland, because frankly its insane staying here short term, for a ton of 0bvious reasons.. . Experience far better nearly everything abroad and come back with tens of thousands saved or simy stay abroad. Health, Infrastructure, law and order, housing, ots already a disgrace, despite the magic money tree throwing out euro in a frenzy, these things are still getting WORSE.. welcome to Ireland .

Imagine graduating here. Going into the guards or HSE... lol. While your mates are off the other side of the world, living the dream. More pay, better work life balance... our biggest city, Dublin. Nightlife focused on Camden Street and Harcourt street, its a total farce...

Lads instead of reading thousands of hours worth of threads over the next decade or so... I highly recommend watching this... explains why government love rip off property prices... from Australia, but 99% of it applicable to here...

I highly recommend watching it Real Estate 4 Ransom... it has to be the greatest racket of all time. Captive global population that need a roof over their head... all other expenditure will be curtailed to feed the never ending run away train of greed...

https://youtu.be/XL3n59wC8kk?si=9MG0S0n6tU1ieOOt

Aye.

SF will very likley end up delivering LESS units than the 30k pa we are seeing currently, as they are obsessesed with getting rid of the investment funds.

Ignoring the obvious flaw in their plan that its the funds that finance & enable most of our large scale developments and without them, the schemes are very unlikley to go ahead.

No investment funds = fewer large scale developments = fewer new homes.

Funnily enough, lots of these were owned by rich Irish Catholics, before and long after 1922 and only demolished when they were physically falling down and killing people in their beds.

I would prefer to live in a van than pay 1400 a month in Dublin.

What benefit does vulture blocks with a professional in each room do? Honestly, people like you are the worst

SF are something different, worst case scenario the multinationals leave and things cools down without the mass inequalities. Ask young non tech workers what they think of silicon docks and if they are hoping for a crash, you'll be surprised. We do buy this GDP crap when our lives our materially worse than our parents was

Id rather we didnt have the mad wealth inequality so we didn't need vulture fund soulless blocks for French techies. Id rather we did what worked in the past, provide jobs based on existing skills in communties, not move the communities out to make way for staff. How many people who grew up in Ringsend can afford to live in it? Now its the whole of Dublin. Its not a Dubliners city anymore, its a city for multinationals. We sold our country for GDP for the few and look what its done. The reason people don't want vultures is we want our communities, this is why young people are livid with FFG and are voting SF. Dublin has been killed by greed and globalisation.

There are jobs for everyone. We are very lucky in that way.

We have developed very fast as a nation economcially, especially in Dublin as you say.

But the answer is never to lose good jobs and good prospects for our youth.

One of the real blockers we have is the ability to build taller, more dense apartments.

That will come and we are starting to see it happen & that will enable us to house more people in our communities.

The glass bottle development in Ringsend is a good example.

The problem is simply a lack of homes. There is room for everyone. But only if there are enough homes for everyone.

What do you think should be done to resolve the housing crisis ?