È stata annunciata una nuova sovvenzione da 135.000 euro per trasformare gli spazi vuoti sopra i negozi in case
https://www.thejournal.ie/to-create-more-housing-in-towns-and-villages-7000992-Apr2026/
di Ok_Bell8081
È stata annunciata una nuova sovvenzione da 135.000 euro per trasformare gli spazi vuoti sopra i negozi in case
https://www.thejournal.ie/to-create-more-housing-in-towns-and-villages-7000992-Apr2026/
di Ok_Bell8081
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This makes no sense, Vacant grant is 50k for a house and the vacant store one is 135k..
This is something I always found bizzare, we have literary thousands of those places across Ireland. Small shop or business on ground flor and absolutely nothing above.
Dublin is full of those big buildings where we have some vape shop and 3 empty floors above it, in beautiful old house in great location. It’s such a shame
Even if this does make sense to fix the housing market, does it stick in anyone elses craw that this is essentially a 135k grant to property owners.
So they can sell/rent to normal people?
I read this wrong and I was like “They are turning vacant spaces above homes into shops!?”
My dream has always been a small apartment of my own directly above a kebab shop
Great, the vape shop/phone repair shops owners can just invite 20 of their cousins over on bogus work visas, pay them less than minimum wage and make them live above the premises. 12 men to a room tenement style. Because that’s what’s actually going to happen.
A local pub is trying to do this and the owner is having a terrible time trying to fit an old building to modern regs.
We have seen similar schemes announced and roled out over and over again over the last decade or so.
And they havent ever really been massively successful.
Fire safety and access mean that a lot of the tjme, unless you own multiple buildings in a row, its not possible.
Another stupid act by the government to funnel more money into the back pockets of their mates.
Tax vacant property out of existence. Not give them more money, you stupid ducks.
None of these grants really matter. The issue is (according to a friend in planning) is that fire regs and plans make it very difficult nowadays to get planning for these conversions. Access to fire exits is a big stumbling block. I cant see this working tbh
The rich get richer, and the state seems hellbent on ensuring that. James Connolly spinning in his grave
Newsflash
Spaces above shops now unaffordable for the workers of Ireland due in part to the govt offering grants to those who could already afford to convert spaces above shops into homes. Knock on effect of pricing now places actual workers outside of ownership due to affordability. How the government could have forseen this has been defended by the current housing minister as “impossibly to forsee this outcome” “lessons have been learned” “no magic money trees (for the poors)” etc etc.
In no parallel universe does it take 360k to build a bike shed
Or, the state of that children’s hospital and that temporary USC tax
Or, the 100m funding given to greyhound racing
This is simply blatant corruption, not inefficiency