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Whatever happened to the housing crisis ?

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    #482
    Cal4567
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭Cal4567


    My solutions would be thus:

    Build high-density social housing units in urban areas
    Increase LPT
    Change planning laws to make building high-density units more cost effective
    Change the laws on land prices, do whatever it takes to get it down
    Offer/Make people take social housing units in other counties instead of Dublin.
    Stop selling council houses to people for a song.
    Offer VAT/PRSI rebates for developers who provide social housing units.
    Give FTB tax credits for 10 years when they buy a house.
    Create urban corridors in the main citys where housing units of 20+ levels are build, next to transport systems. CPO land and houses on these corridors
    No new house should be built inside the M50, apartments only
    Encourage apartment living for families

    Have to agree with a lot of this. Dept of Finance will have no better time to get to grips with Housing policy now across the country using the depleted government resources because of Covid 19. Best chance in a decade, a chance not to be missed.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    On 20th March there were 1351 apartments to rent on Daft in Dublin..... There's 1798 today.... A 30% increase.


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    #484
    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,506 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    There's no housing crisis.


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    #485
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Augeo wrote: »
    On 20th March there were 1351 apartments to rent on Daft in Dublin..... There's 1798 today.... A 30% increase.

    That's global pandemics for ya.
    ELM327 wrote: »
    There's no housing crisis.

    I hear hair has stopped growing. Nobody going the hairdressers at all :)


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    #486
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bowie wrote: »
    That's global pandemics for ya.


    ...

    It's after loads have been rented out also.
    It's now a nice bit of supply.


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    #487
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Augeo wrote: »
    It's after loads have been rented out also.
    It's now a nice bit of supply.

    True. I believe Air BnB are way down due to travel restrictions and the poor accidental landlords need rent to people looking for somewhere to live.
    Hopefully after Covid#19 we don't see a return so much.

    The housing market in general has slowed due to the pandemic.


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    #488
    Dean3y
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭Dean3y


    Hi all, Any helpful suggestions would be welcome.

    I have an apartment for sale in Drogheda.
    I (finally) have mortgage approval as of last week to purchase a house, to accommodate a growing family.

    With fewer buyers at present, I requested a housing acquisition application form from the council. They informed me that they are not buying any one-off dwellings at present.

    Are there any other bodies that may be interested in acquisition?


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