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What do we expect from the new Minister for Housing?

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  • #52
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    mrslancaster wrote: »
    How would that work? who do you think the external keybox/keypad access products should be registered with?

    Don't security alarms need some sort of certification, something similar


  • #53
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! wrote: »
    Controlling private property is something that'd happen in Nazi Germany. It's unconstitutional.

    More Communist Russia than Nazi Germany, as long as you weren't Jewish you could own what you wanted, didn't Hitler sell the VW Beetle as some sort of pyramid scheme?


  • #54
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    ispeakdatruth wrote: »
    I’d like to see the minister balance the landlord/tenant relationship.
    Notice periods should be reduced, and Any non paying tenants should experience efficient evictions.

    I think an education program for the general public that explains that not everyone will be in a position to own a house.
    Pay attention in school, get a job, and work hard are all keys to home ownership. This should be drilled into the youth.

    If these things are achieved, I think this minister will be deemed a success.

    If houses are costing 10 to 15 times median wages that's Not going to happen, if they limit mortgage limits to 3 or 4 times single wage houses will no longer be a commodity,
    if we consider housing as a need and can provide basic housing at sensible prices ,make it more like buying a fridge , introduce price controls if necessary, imagine the disposable income available if accommodation was only 10 to 15% of income


  • #55
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Claw Hammer wrote: »
    High or low rise. It didn't turn out well. Why 30 storeys anyway? Massively expensive to build and maintain.

    Fire hazard as well


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Claw Hammer wrote: »
    No reason they can't be registered. When investigating suspected short term letting the first thing to look for would be an unauthorised keybox or keypad. I have yet to see a private home with keypad access through the front door. some posher houses are using them at the front gate but not to get in the door. i doubt if the insurance would allow it in any case.

    Feck that, none of the councils business how I choose to access my home. No way would I register anything of the sort with them.


  • #57
    Jet Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    ispeakdatruth wrote: »
    I’d like to see the minister balance the landlord/tenant relationship.
    Notice periods should be reduced, and Any non paying tenants should experience efficient evictions.

    Never going to happen. More than likely 'fix' things in favor of tenants and then wonder why more landlords are leaving the market. It'll only change in favor of the landlords when it's all REITs.


  • #58
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Realistically, his focus will be on the delivery of a gross number of new housing units. There will not be any relief for landlords or a rebalancing of rights; there might be the odd party contribution from that area but realistically any relief for landlords would lose 10 votes for every one generated.

    Its a sad reality that you are correct, landlords are considered lower than criminals in Ireland by a certain set.


  • #59
    fret_wimp2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭fret_wimp2


    He will probably be forced to wind up the Strategic Housing Development scheme.
    Quite a lot of approvals are being challenged in the high court & either being pushed back to planning or quashed completely..
    In the case of the Castleknock one at Bradys, the ABP inspector actually recommended against it but the board approved it anyway. the permission was quashed.

    The programme is being challenged by Dermot Desmonds wife Pat Desmond as being undemocratic.
    It takes agency and control of an area from the area residents & doesnt pay much heed to the long term local area plans, just caring about number of beds & to challenge it people need to spend a lot of money on legal, meaning control of ones area is now only available to those who can afford it.


  • #60
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    Mira Massive Scam wrote: »
    Feck that, none of the councils business how I choose to access my home. No way would I register anything of the sort with them.

    It can be made the councils business. The councils already get involved in access by motor vehicle to the public roads.


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  • #61
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Claw Hammer wrote: »
    No reason they can't be registered. When investigating suspected short term letting the first thing to look for would be an unauthorised keybox or keypad. I have yet to see a private home with keypad access through the front door. some posher houses are using them at the front gate but not to get in the door. i doubt if the insurance would allow it in any case.

    theres about 40 homes in Dublin that I've been involved with that have keypad, fob or fingerprint access for the front door. Its more common than you think, keys are old and dead.


  • #62
    [Deleted User]
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    the_syco wrote: »
    The Fair Deal scheme gets X amount from the sale of the house. Who'd look after the tenants should it be rented? The OAP in the home who is there because they can't even look after themselves??????

    Look after the tenants? What looking after is needed? Get an agent, easy. Generate rent from the property and give someone somewhere to live.


  • #63
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    theres about 40 homes in Dublin that I've been involved with that have keypad, fob or fingerprint access for the front door. Its more common than you think, keys are old and dead.

    Still no reason key pads can't be registered. i certainly wouldn't have access to my house by keypad only.


  • #64
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Claw Hammer wrote: »
    Still no reason key pads can't be registered. i certainly wouldn't have access to my house by keypad only.

    why should they be registered. Should you have to register what locks are on your door ?

    I fail to see the issue with a secure electronic locking system that can't be overridden from outside the front door, which enables audit trailing of everyone in the house, has the ability to add guest access etc.. vs a metal rotating cylinder I can defeat in 30 seconds with a cordless drill.


  • #65
    Fol20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Fol20


    robinbird wrote: »
    Easy solution. Abolish HAP. Use the billion euro a year saved for increased welfare payments and social house building.
    Rents and property prices would collapse.

    How about all the people in HAP. Shall we throw all of them out in the street for the next few years as the government start building houses. HAP isn’t an ideal setup but it is there to house people immediately.


  • #66
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    why should they be registered. Should you have to register what locks are on your door ?

    I fail to see the issue with a secure electronic locking system that can't be overridden from outside the front door, which enables audit trailing of everyone in the house, has the ability to add guest access etc.. vs a metal rotating cylinder I can defeat in 30 seconds with a cordless drill.

    The reason for registering is to detect unauthorised short term lettings.


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  • #67
    perfectkama
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭perfectkama


    Claw Hammer wrote: »
    The reason for registering is to detect unauthorised short term lettings.
    nonsense, but expected here lots of people using them now, newer systems are more affordable "lived in Seoul most people don't have door keys anymore" it doesn't mean your doing STL.
    Maybe have a cc official 24h on every street in the city stopping people or drones?


  • #68
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Claw Hammer wrote: »
    The reason for registering is to detect unauthorised short term lettings.

    A miniscule miniscule problem. You’d waste millions. Youd free up more houses booting out people in houses ‘boyfriends’ not on the books.


  • #69
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,304 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    if we consider housing as a need and can provide basic housing at sensible prices ,make it more like buying a fridge , introduce price controls if necessary, imagine the disposable income available if accommodation was only 10 to 15% of income
    Land, location, building supplies, and labour. Which will you cheap out on to get said cheap housing?
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Look after the tenants? What looking after is needed? Get an agent, easy. Generate rent from the property and give someone somewhere to live.
    Someone has to pay the agent. After the owner has died, the house will be sold to cover the cost of the Fair Deal Scheme. It may be seen as cheaper to leave the house empty rather than risking getting a tenant that won't leave when asked to do so.


  • #70
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,427 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Look after the tenants? What looking after is needed? Get an agent, easy. Generate rent from the property and give someone somewhere to live.

    It’s one of the stupidities that’s the Fair Deal Schene effectively encourages the property to be left empty as (?)80% of the rental income would have to be paid over which does not leave much to pay tax on said income.


  • #71
    Dean3y
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭Dean3y


    When I inquired about acquisition this morning, I was advised by a few housing bodies that they have no requirement for a one-off dwelling at present.

    One said that they are inundated with property offers at present.

    They didn't request information on the property, it was simply refused.

    I thought it was strange.


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  • #72
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    A miniscule miniscule problem. You’d waste millions. Youd free up more houses booting out people in houses ‘boyfriends’ not on the books.

    It is far from minuscule as demonstrated by the number of vacant apartments in Dublin city centre at the start of the lockdown. Saying that there are other ways of dealing with the problem is no answer. All available methods should be use.


  • #73
    TSQ
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭TSQ


    Claw Hammer wrote: »
    For example, an offence of having an external key box outside a house unless it is registered. Same for keypad access.

    Are you bonkers? So if I want to leave an emergency key at my elderly parents house I need to register it? or just because I am forgetful, and mislay my key. And what about Google doorbells with remote operation? Sure while you’re at it, why not have to register with govt to cut spare keys.


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