La risposta alla crisi abitativa dell’Irlanda è più appartamenti?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/03/02/is-the-answer-to-irelands-housing-crisis-more-apartments/
di jeperty
La risposta alla crisi abitativa dell’Irlanda è più appartamenti?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/03/02/is-the-answer-to-irelands-housing-crisis-more-apartments/
di jeperty
35 commenti
It’s one of them.
Or more housing. Or was that to obvious
Actually liveable apartments where people stay long term instead of the current situation of suffering somewhere for a few years until we can save for a mortgage. The level of quality between apartments in Dublin and any other European city is shocking. Most of the living rooms are the width of corridors with a tiny alcove for a kitchen built in.
Trick question… there isn’t only one answer.
Imagine being told 10 years ago that this would be a headline when we were at the start of a housing crisis.
It’s one of the answers as long as the apartments that are built a livable, they really aren’t that many that I’ve seen that were built in the late 2000s that you’d actually want to stay in long-term
Yes. Yes it is. Is that journalist Jeremy clarkson?
It’s crazy how low-rise Dublin is, and how the whole city seems to be held hostage by the small group of people who own houses near the city centre. We’re building 22 storey towers in Carrickmines, and the people in that tower will be commuting into the city past rows and rows of houses. What do we even have planning for if this is the shit we end up with.
As if people are still asking these questions
Yes
Jesus, yes. Of course.
Higher density housing is part of the answer
Is the answer to a vitamin D deficiency more sun light???
Yes. Until we sort out systemic pricing, labour and planning issues we should prioritise apartment building.
Obviously
It may not be The Answer, but it’s certainly An Answer
I think the scariest thing about all of this is that we are still asking how to solve this like it’s something that’s never been done before like why the fuck is this even a question
You would think it’s a slow news week or something
More apartments, tax multiple homeownership into oblivion, ensure first time buyers are not competing with people who already own homes or funds, have a cap on immigration until the housing crisis ends, seize unoccupied houses.
These are just some of the things you’d do if you actually considered the housing crisis a crisis and not a money making machine.
It can help, but they need to be affordable. No pint building apartments if they cost too much to rent or you’re barely getting by
Build taller and higher density housing. Improve transport links from outside of the city to reduce demand for housing in the city centre. Subsidise expenses for developers to promote more new developments. Limit the purchase of housing from foreign investors. Increase affordable government housing. Stop unnecessary immigration into the country
That journo gives me a pain in me face.
Is the answer to thirst some form of liquid?
And then it being available, of course. But the wondering out loud is exhausting.
Build baby build!
No! And people need to wake up and not be blaming the government either. If a country doesn’t have a proper and modern transportation network then you end up clustering all accommodation close to its cities Dublin and Cork. I’m sick and tired of reading about housing. If the train system was modernized I mean really modernized with high speed trains and modern train stations then people could commute to and from work.
But no instead the roads are blocked up with cars and buses and we are still running diesel locomotives! At the end of the day the electorate is duty bound to hold politicians accountable for a transportation network that holds the potential for housing to expand out of our cities and stimulates local employment investment.
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/cc8fc-all-island-strategic-rail-review/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIxuRlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWH5R5PuOVGIW2IPMKfziWQ9Lu4HIIKSWpk1VePgmeOhQoUNuUy10wkFbg_aem_snW13kguP4nLMSb-wb9eqg
Yes but not those only rental blocks owned by landlord who is an investment bank indulging in extortion for rent. Make it cheap and let well off renters become home owners, it will take pressure off of renters for both rent and availability. While you’re at it build 100s of student accommodation for all universities so they are taken off the housing stock.
America has TONS of apartments. They are faring no better than us.
The source of the problem is lack of regulation, greed, and stagnant wages.
I’d take a burrow underground with a solid Ethernet cable and power supply.
Yes!
And to add to that, apartments that are built in town/city centres, preferably renovating old and vacant buildings to make nice, spacious apartments that people will view as an alternative to an isolated house in a housing estate or the countryside.
It would transform our town/cities, giving them immediate footfall, atmosphere and economy. It would also decrease the need for everyone to have cars. Elderly people, students and young professionals could really benefit from more apartments.
Prioritise development of apartments over housing estates!!
of course its part of the answer, we can see it working in just about every other major city with massive implications for roads and transport pressures. what exactly are we trying to protect here? its not like dublin is prague or florence with castles and 1000 year old buildings everywhere.
Is the answer to thirst water?
Is the answer to Irelands housing crisis more places to live?
Stop sharing the crap these people are writing.
Nah stupid idea, stay going with the rows of bungalows in the city
The answer is cruise ships, some of the massive ones can house over 7k people. Buy 10 of them and set them to anchor at the city ports. Boom no more sleeping rough
D’oh!
Yes probably