"average Dublin house prices should fall to ‘the €300,000 mark" according to Many Lou McD.

true, its a significant supply problem, only problem is, ffg have largely ignored the severity of this supply problem, ignoring what respected commentators have been advocating for, i.e. effectively double the figures of what ffg have been proposing, our governments, past and present, have also largely ignored the resources thats required to achieve these numbers, i.e. training thats required. so we re now left with an extremely serious supply problem, a major deficit in supply, and a major deficit in people able to build whats required, all of which will require years, if not decades to resolve....

...theres no melodrama here, this is our now reality, again, we re now experiencing an extremely serious housing deficit, of which was actually foreseen for many years, reported since the height of the last crash, all governments since then have been deeply misinformed of its seriousness, and have been making bad decisions after bad decisions since, so much so, we actually dont know what to do next....

...yes the blocking of developments have very badly effected completions, but our problems are in fact far deeper, our state simply doesnt know what to do next, and again, that includes all parties....

...this problem will persist into the next decade, by then there will more than likely be significant social and political problems, including the potential of an extreme party, similar to other nations....

Because they are anti investment funds (openly) but they fail to see that without investment funds, most residential construction projects aren't viable and simply wont be built.

35k is not an impressive number, it should not be being applauded.

Our population increased by by approx 100k last year, and in 2022, and will likely increase by similar this year. That increase requires about 40,000 houses built just to accomodate them. Nevermind replace existing housing units, or make any dent in the housing crisis.

35k home is far less than we need. The ESRI's most recent estimate is 60k+ a year.

Twenty years ago, with a much smaller population, we were building 90k a year.

Its an utter failure of our current government's policies that the housing completion numbers haven't increased faster.

Its not nothing was my point.

I said we should be delivering more, but some people go on as if there is nothing being built.

Dublin is swamped with apartment developments at the moment.

The 90k homes was when we had a much larger construction work force, so we wont hit those numbers, but I think we should be working towards 50k.

In the 90s a single person working could buy a house in Dublin

now for most people it takes 2 salary's the population has increased there's not enough houses or apartments to meet demand Dublin has transformed in the last 20 years since the big tech company's arrived

There's an option to change old office buildings that are empty to housing

And it costs 250k plus to build a house

The cost of building labour materials has increased

Other non resi projects would not be delivered though. There are plenty of essential infrastrucutre projects, aside from home building.

My parents both from a Dublin suburb (was countryside even when i was young) had 8 and 7 siblings.

Every one of them left Ireland before or just after the end of secondary school.

All of them (bar one who died), some with spouses and children in tow came back to live in Ireland between 1994 and 2000. Only 2 of them could afford to buy near their parents. The rest scattered and most bought houses further out.

The 90s wasnt just a time when it was possible to get a job in Ireland after school, but it was a time when a couple of generations that emigrated before also came home to jobs here and all looking for homes. It was also a time when it became normal to expect both of a couple to have a job in order to contribute to the mortgage. So much demand arrived in the country at that time.

again, the issue with uprooting people would more than likely induce even more dysfunction into society as a whole, yes you may improve an area, but you simply move the dysfunctions elsewhere, and possibly/probably magnify those dysfunctions, creating an even bigger problem elsewhere, which in turn just ultimately drains the greater social systems/institutions such as our legal system, welfare system, health system, educational system etc etc, i.e. it actually ends up just creating an even bigger problem on the grander scale.....

helping to maintain some sort of social cohesion is critical in reducing and limiting these social dysfunctions, forcing a large proportion of people out of areas, induces brake down in these critical social networks, increasing the likelihood of issues such as mental health issue, addiction issues, crime, you end up effectively opening Pandora's box, in which is next to impossible to truly resolve, i.e. theres critical points of social dysfunction of when induced, such as those mentioned, i.e. mental health issues, addiction, crime etc, it becomes next to impossible to eradicate them once induced, i.e. you end up in long term, even generational dysfunction, so the key is to try prevent it from happening in the first place, long term unemployment is commonly also induced under such conditions, in which of course, all taxpayers ultimately pay the price, i.e. we shot ourselves in the foot by inducing such outcomes, i.e. prevention is better than the cure(which in many circumstances, simply never happens, even generationally)....