Nobody took away affordable housing. There is more of it than 10 years ago. But there are also 1 million more people living here since the financial crisis. We need to stop playing the blame game and find ways to build.
Churt_Lyne on
Just on a point of economics, if we had more landlords providing accommodation, there would be more competion between them for tenants, pushing prices down. The problem isn’t too many landlords, it’s too few properties to live in.
Actual_Physics on
So are refugees living in unaffordable housing?
sureyouknowurself on
Refugees no, but the 70% that should not be here don’t help.
The states interference in the private market also does not help.
Remove the height limit.
JONFER--- on
There is a problem with this poster, in that it is inherently wrong.
Affordable housing is just housing at a low competitive price.
Price is determined partly by supply and demand, due to inwards migration the demand for housing has exploded over the past couple of years. This is partly but not exclusively down to Ireland’s refugee process. Without doubt there are many economic migrants gaming the system. With the U.K.’s Rwanda plan migrants over there who are afraid of deportation are leaving to the Republic via Northern Ireland and the open border. We are as soft touch.
Houses are expensive to build and take years. Even if the government were to build houses. They do not have builders, they would just hire some of the same developers who are building privately. The net result being the numbers do not change.
It’s unpopular and too many unpolitically correct, but to ignore the elephant in the room and say that it doesn’t exist is breathtakingly naive.
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So we all should live in vaults now?
Nobody took away affordable housing. There is more of it than 10 years ago. But there are also 1 million more people living here since the financial crisis. We need to stop playing the blame game and find ways to build.
Just on a point of economics, if we had more landlords providing accommodation, there would be more competion between them for tenants, pushing prices down. The problem isn’t too many landlords, it’s too few properties to live in.
So are refugees living in unaffordable housing?
Refugees no, but the 70% that should not be here don’t help.
The states interference in the private market also does not help.
Remove the height limit.
There is a problem with this poster, in that it is inherently wrong.
Affordable housing is just housing at a low competitive price.
Price is determined partly by supply and demand, due to inwards migration the demand for housing has exploded over the past couple of years. This is partly but not exclusively down to Ireland’s refugee process. Without doubt there are many economic migrants gaming the system. With the U.K.’s Rwanda plan migrants over there who are afraid of deportation are leaving to the Republic via Northern Ireland and the open border. We are as soft touch.
Houses are expensive to build and take years. Even if the government were to build houses. They do not have builders, they would just hire some of the same developers who are building privately. The net result being the numbers do not change.
It’s unpopular and too many unpolitically correct, but to ignore the elephant in the room and say that it doesn’t exist is breathtakingly naive.