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New Rent Pressure Zones

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  • 21-01-2017 7:31pm
    #1
    April 73
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    Does anyone think that the newly added & yet to be added Rent Pressure Zone designations will end up becoming unworkable?

    As an example see the towns added in Co Kildare.
    https://www.kildarenow.com/news/two-towns-co-kildare-due-added-rent-cap-designated-zones/140867

    In some cases it will be obvious that properties lie within RPZs - eg:anywhere in Dublin City. As it rolls out over country towns there will be dispute after dispute put in front of the RTB as LLs of properties on the outskirts of town raise rents & tenants dispute it based on the property being inside a RPZ. Without a workable postcode designating an area as a RPZ in country areas - I see this becoming a big RTB mess.


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    4ensic15
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    It is being done by District Electoral Division. It will be certain what properties are included but there will be cases of properties being only yards away from the boundary being included and others excluded. The reality is that once a pressure zone is created the supply of properties to rent will reduce and there will be a spill over of increases into neighbouring areas and they will in turn become pressure zones.


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    newacc2015
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    The reality is that once a pressure zone is created the supply of properties to rent will reduce and there will be a spill over of increases into neighbouring areas and they will in turn become pressure zones.

    Sure the whole point of the rent control was to appease voters and not to actually change anything. If the Government wanted to achieve anything, any of the TDs who googled rent control would know it wasn't do anything in the long run but make these worse.

    If the Government wanted to solve the housing crisis, they would have to build more housing and that would take a long time. But most voters are ignorant and a rent control is sufficient for them.


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    4ensic15
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    newacc2015 wrote: »
    Sure the whole point of the rent control was to appease voters and not to actually change anything. If the Government wanted to achieve anything, any of the TDs who googled rent control would know it wasn't do anything in the long run but make these worse.

    If the Government wanted to solve the housing crisis, they would have to build more housing and that would take a long time. But most voters are ignorant and a rent control is sufficient for them.

    The whole thing is cack-handed. They will jump up and down trying to have a rent pressure zone for their town instead of trying to CPO land and getting building started.


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