La domanda di alloggi è ora la seconda più alta in Europa con i prezzi in aumento

Nice, so it’s just going to get worse, and worse, and worse as the years go by.

Before you know it we’ll be up to the 20 year anniversary of “housing can’t be built overnight” and things still won’t have gotten any better.

The first part by itself would be perfectly fine (actually average good thing) if this country did even the absolute bare minimum to develop new housing and infrastructure like a normal developed country…

Only well off people can afford a house now normal workers have been priced out of the market. Our wages have been keep low with plenty of foreign workers brought in to suppress them and the increase in population has increased demand for housing. So I don’t see any hope at owning my own home now just working to pay rent.

As far a I can see this is by design our politicians don’t want to fix anything because they are making plenty of money off it. 50% of them are Landlords and many of their wives as well.

Keep voting for the same parties and surprisingly you get the same result.

Apart from the humanitarian issue, this is not good for the economy med and long term. Where are the people we need to keep the country running for the next 10 -15 years going to life? More and more people will retire over the next two decades, and the ones needed to fill their places can’t afford to life here.

Very soon we will hear that a company will not be expanding, moving to or maybe even leaving Ireland because of that. And don’t even get me started on the health sector…

Let’s face it they don’t care, houses are investments for the global elite and our own. With AI, migration, climate change it’s only going to get worse.

Our government does not just have its head in the sand, it’s culpable in the future disasters that’ll arrive soon

And it’s only going to get worse as other countries in Europe as well as the UK become more nationalistic with their immigration policies. The reputation Ireland has for being “a soft touch” is only going to get worse.

But this article only tells a fraction of the story. It points out how extra housing demand will make housing more expensive, but that isn’t a whole lot said about how already bad public services like health, education, transport et cetera et cetera will be crippled by all of this extra demand.

Even if hypothetically all the restrictions were lifted tomorrow the biggest ones being planning and legal challenges (imagine they are gone). Even if building started around the clock, we still would not be able to clear the housing backlog and satiate the new demand that would occur in the couple of years that housing is being built.

What would be an even bigger disaster would be if we did, one major economic contraction internationally like the last one that occurs in 2007/8 would leave this country flooded with ghost estates even more so than previously was as people emigrate en masse in search of work.

I think the government needs to start looking after the interests of the Irish people first and foremost as opposed to caring for every NGO and foreign lobbyist thinks.