Le case vengono costruite in Irlanda, quindi perché la gente comune non può acquistarle? – The Irish Times

😂 It’s all planned out long ago. Ordinary folks should own nothing. No property, entertainment, video games, car software nothing. Ordinary folks are more valuable for the right when they own nothing and subscribe / rent everything because money can continue pouring in post purchase this way, prices can be resisted etc. without needing to provide any additional value or benefit for the customer. Best way to make the rich richer. And boom we’re a feudalistic society again!

Stage could easily regulate this but has no intention and interest to do so. We wouldn’t want capital stop flowing in it’s easier to let people whine and do nothing about it. 

This is very simple. There are a number of things the government could do. Reduce short term rentals, increase the number of houses being built (council houses), tax vacant land and derelict properties.

They don’t do this because their voters make money from short term rentals, increasing housing supply might lower existing property values and upset voters, taxing land/derelicts will annoy voters.

It’s democracy in action.

The key is to counter those assumptions about voters. And to elect politicians who see past them.

Not enough being built and too low profit margins on building them

you’ll own nothing and be happy about it peasants!

The state, and the various quangos and charities it funds, should not be competing against taxpayers for homes. Bottom line.

Three things haven’t been mentioned our planning system is a joke we have dozens of agencies who drive up costs and make only companies can afford can make homes we need to simplify the process for everyone

we also need to build upwards not outwards into urban sprawl it’s unsustainable, build apartments complexes for city centres maybe that will also revitalise our cities

Third and I’m going to get downvoted for it, immigration , we have half a million migrants who have arrived in the span of 5 years thats unsustainable and it’s naturally increasing costs, we need to cut back illegal and legal migration till our housing situation and infrastructure is fit for purpose

Edit: spelling

Sources

https://planningpermissionireland.ie/blog/2025/03/15/irish-housing-crisis-deepens-sharp-decline-in-planning-permissions-threatens-future-supply/

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0822/1465846-ireland-europe-refugees-migrants-asylum-seekers-data-analysis/

The issue with this argument is that – as pointed out in the article – a lot of these houses are bought through “forward orders” i.e. the government was committed to buying them before they were even built. Bulk sales like that make it more viable to develop big chunks of properties. If the government wasn’t doing that, some amount of those properties probably wouldn’t have been built in the first place.

That being said, I think it’s a terrible use of state resources to buy houses in this way. The best period for housing in this country was the 1950s-1970s when the government was directly involved in the building of homes. When the biggest problem in this country is a lack of construction, it’s unbelievable that there’s no state construction company in the works. It would take years to set up, but we’re going to need to build things for decades to come. The state buying houses like this is just silly.

Keeping the VC and corporation landlords away from any property that isn’t commercial should be a priority.

Because McWilliams told a rain-soaked, terminally-ill and mentally-unfit Brian Lenihan to write the banks a blank cheque – without any sort of balances, checks or investigations.

That’s why.

I’d like to be able to afford to buy even a little 2 bed apartment that means I am less than 90 minutes of a commute. It’s bonkers out there.

The end of the article:

Normally a bulk buyer uses their position to negotiate prices downwards. Today, in Ireland, the biggest buyer in town, the State, is pushing prices up, handing home builders a jackpot.

Why is it doing this? Because it can. Last week’s column explained how US multinational money – all €29 billion of it this year – is distorting the economy in a variety of unpleasant ways. The housing market is a specific example of what is happening across the board. The tax spigot from corporation tax goes directly into the public sector. It has no notion of cost control, and this money goes to housing agencies which buy up houses at inflated prices directly from home builders, squeezing out average first-time buyers, many of whom emigrate in relative despair.

Who gains? The shareholders of home builders who are mainly foreign institutions. Once again, the serious cash passes through the Irish economy like a dose of salts. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

What does Irish society get? Probably the most expensive council houses on Earth, resulting in what could be termed “the housing list-isation” of the Irish property market, where new homes go to the people who queue the longest, not to those who save the most. The market becomes increasingly dysfunctional as potential young buyers compete with the very State they pay their taxes to. Prices go ever upwards, precisely because the Government is driving them up, and the multinational tax bonanza which is supposed to make things easier for the average worker makes things harder.

Meanwhile, the poor estate agents twiddle their thumbs and remember their salad days.

Give the new builds to Palestinians.