Taoiseach segnala possibile end per affittare le zone di pressione entro la fine dell’anno
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/02/09/taoiseach-signals-possible-end-to-rent-pressure-zones-by-end-of-year/
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Taoiseach segnala possibile end per affittare le zone di pressione entro la fine dell’anno
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/02/09/taoiseach-signals-possible-end-to-rent-pressure-zones-by-end-of-year/
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What i find disgusting is this
>”**The Taoiseach said the reactionary approach to the rental market had been a huge problem as there was no security of the environment for investors. “They don’t know whether it will change from year to year. That has to stop, and that has to change**,” he said.”
All about the investors, nevermind the people without affordable homes to in.
He is acting in favour of people who vote for his party. That’s how western democracies work
Thank God someone’s finally thinking of the property investors
https://preview.redd.it/vj373s2bk5ie1.jpeg?width=495&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e043b167496d43b2b56542335fa8bef9db99fb72
Classic post election honesty
Wtf
The rent is unaffordable even with these meagre limits 😂
Elections are over then hmmm? Hopefully next time around folks will remember.
One man’s home is another man’s 45th investment property
Ah fuck…
Think it’s time for a mass strike… Like the french.
Fuck this government and the people that constantly vote for them.
Well we have at least 4 more years of these Muppets. He is a crafty cunt. People in poorer socioeconomics are much less likely to vote. To me it’s a form of voter disenfranchisement keeping people in economical limbo.
This is what happens when parties feel like there are no repercussions to their policies.
Every time it’s FF or FG who get in and now that they are essentially the one party ruling together they don’t care anymore, they’ll do whatever suits them and their money masters and to feck with those who are struggling.
Have they helped or have they made things worse?
While I think it’s a massive issue in Ireland, there is a massive body of work, with a lot of supporting evidence showing rent controls lead to negative outcomes in the long term, while solving issues at points in time. It is quite a debated area and something worth reading to get a broader view – https://iea.org.uk/media/rent-controls-do-far-more-harm-than-good-comprehensive-review-finds/ and https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-rent-control-doesnt-work/#:~:text=Milton%20FRIEDMAN%3A%20Rent%20control%20is,other%20people%20to%20get%20housing.
We are not building enough housing. Rent pressure zones only help those with existing leases and who don’t want to move.
Rents are going up because there isn’t enough housing in the country. It has been an obvious problem since at least 2014. It used to be that school leavers and college leavers moving abroad was sufficient release valve to allow politicians to deny this. After 2020 (when emigration was paused) and 2022 (when the numbers of IP applications stepped up to unprecedented levels), that fiction no longer works.
We should want rents to go down because there is enough housing for everyone, not because those lucky enough to have a lease will soon have a below-market-price rent rate. That means that increasing the returns on letting properties is counter-intuitively a small but necessary part of a solution.
The question is whether they can deliver the other parts.
Country is going down the drain ….renter’s pinned to the collar,soup kitchens use at all time high
Government solution is to ramp up rent further as it’s members are nearly all landlords
What a dick.
It’s an unpopular opinion but rent controls [don’t work](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-does-economic-evidence-tell-us-about-the-effects-of-rent-control/)
This is what the gombeens and gobshites of the country voted for no point complaining now
Write to your TD. Doesn’t matter if you voted for them or not, if they’re part of the government or opposition. Find your local TD and write an email. Write exactly what you’d write in this thread. The majority in the Dàil is extremely feeble, with 9 independents acting as a crutch for the government. If there’s enough pushback the government will not push it.
His landlord mates mustn’t be making enough money.
That’s a big shift. Opens the door to variable rent increases unless they are brining in a new system
Down and out in Dublin and Galway
Harambe didn’t die for this bullshit
Ah yes, because building more will decrease the amount of money renters pay… newer properties will be more expensive and make existing rents match the price around..
The boom is back baby
The experience has been in other countries that rent controls reduce supply. We may not like this, and it’s easy to say “screw landlords/investors”, but people need somewhere to rent. Hopefully the government will make some big and unpopular changes without worrying about having to get re-elected in the near future – next they need to tackle the NIMBYs and the planning system which seems to prioritise everything except building places for people to live.
Fucking finally. Easy to know there was an election last year.
How is it not a clear stable environment?
Favourable for investors? No.
But I don’t think RPZs are a complex concept
Thanks every cunt who voted for ff fg. Rent for a small 1 bed, 1 office is 2150 a month. Better have a house sorted before this comes in. Honestly fuck this place
Hahahahaha. Have they even been working to date?
I feel he’s just after saying “Taoiseach signals possible end to fax use”
From the FF 2024 manifesto:
>Fianna Fáil is very aware of the need to develop a more sustainable and affordable rental
market. We introduced the Rent Tax Credit which helped 350,000 renters and also capped
rent increases in Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs). We firmly believe that the key to helping
renters is to increase supply by building more affordable houses.
But also includes the line:
>Continue to review the effectiveness
of the Rent Pressure Zones.
It seems to me like the first paragraph was bragging about having done it, which wouldn’t imply that they’d be so eager to scrap them in their “review” three months after the vote.
Then the Fine Gael Manifesto said they would:
>Retain Rent Pressure Zones: Maintain the Rent
Pressure Zone framework to help keep rent
increases under control in high-demand areas.
This is basic stuff that’s been known for years. Rent controls fail everywhere they’ve been tried. The government were told and knew this when they introduced it but for popular reasons we’ve now had years rent controls holding back investment in housing.
Can be not just make other investments more enticing through tax breaks or whatnot?
Why the fuck does something as essential as housing have to be where we target investment for profit?
This article can’t be real, he didn’t stick the boot into Sinn Féin at any point!
Another disasterclass incoming. Just like when they linked the price to inflation and had to walk it back. Great stuff.
Did he now……..Some boy
I’ll get downvoted to oblivion, but ending rent pressure zones is long overdue. They should have never been introduced.
It’s one of the few matters economists all agree on, rent controls are a terrible method of improving the rental market. It leads to a lack of new developments, reduction in rental supply and and deterioration in property conditions.
Over the long term it has been proven to increase rental costs for renters.
Argentina ended rent control recently and supply increased almost 200%
[https://www.newsweek.com/javier-milei-rent-control-argentina-us-election-kamala-harris-housing-affordability-1938127](https://www.newsweek.com/javier-milei-rent-control-argentina-us-election-kamala-harris-housing-affordability-1938127)
Will be one of the first good decisions he’s ever made.
The policy was and is a complete failure and is actually damaging the property market more and less property means higher prices and less housing. Worse for literally everyone, the ones at the bottom of the ladder most effected.
Rip the plaster off.