Emerge il vero disastro abitativo dell’Irlanda

So I’m likely gonna be old and grey and paying rent to live in a closet…Lovely read for a Sunday morning…..

If only they could just build more houses.

They also need to start telling people in their 30s just how exactly they need to get a LDA property of any sort.

Headline makes it sound like they are introducing a new marvel villan

ALONE and other age-friendly organisations have been banging this drum for over a decade now.

For a country to efficiently operate it needs multiple types of housing tenures for the different stages of its populations lifecycle.

Due to our late economic development we’ve been hopelessly shite at future planning all aspects of our society, especially housing.

Specific age friendly developments have been introduced over the last number of years through both the private, aimed at down-sizers, and social, aimed at social housing applicants over 55, but the units delivered are a pittance compared to the actual demand.

Add to that the fact that the age-friendly private developments are nearly always located in affluent areas were the purchasers has the purchasing power gained in the majority of cases from selling their larger homes, in means that the availability of age-friendly housing is further diminished to the masses who need it.