Can Sinn Fein fix the housing crisis or is it beyond them or anybody else?

Yet to see an answer

It is worth posting hourly to be honest. This is a party claiming to fix housing and when they had a chance running the biggest Council they ended up with less houses than they started with.....

3, 2, 1 its XYZ fault

Ahh an event from 15 years ago is so relevant, one the ropes either fire out "Galway tent" or the "Black & tan" event

Galway tent was so grubby, standing in a field beside a horse track, who in their right mind would be at that. It's 2022, now we fly business class to Australia to wine & dine. Nobody stands in a field anymore

Let stick to the topic. The fact SF put all social housing in Dublin into minus figures during a huge population growth.

Troy thread 👉️

The current discussion on this thread is about Sinn fein managing to end up with less houses than they started with when running DCC.

The numbers say the majority of houses in Ireland are been bought by home owners and not investment firms. But we also need investment firms buying because we need rental properties and reduction in rents

The plan of building huge estates of social houses/affordable houses etc has been stopped for obvious reasons. The method is now to build estates with a mix and hope that will stop social issues long term.

If you look at housing the big thing is the cost to build, you need to reduce the cost to build. Developers spending years in court with legal fees while getting blocked by political parties drives up the cost of houses for everyone. The developer is just passing this cost onto the home owner. So streamlining the planning process to stop these pointless rejections will help reduce costs.

I think we should all have an open discussion on housing. But one of the main issues I see is before a brick even gets laid we have millions spent in legal fee which has to be stopped. I go back to the apartment in Dundrum and a resident is blocking the entire thing because they think in the morning it might cast a shadow on their house. Crazy stuff

In regards to end point, you can't massively tax someone because they have to move. Someone buys a home and then 5 years later has to leave because of work. They want to buy a house and you want to tax them out of it to sell it? No chance that would be acceptable.

It's the truth and because it shows Sinn fein in a negative you are calling it "spamming"

Sinn Fein supporters constantly tell everyone that we can't judge Sinn Fein on the terrible performance in the North. Now we are supposed to ignore their terrible performance in local government as well?

It seems you don't have the same issue when you and others spam every thread with "Galway races" and the "Black & Tan" event.

No, I call it spamming because you post it everyday and said it should be posted every hour.

You are misrepresenting DCC council, a number of years ago, as a deflection for over a decade of a national housing disaster. Its desperate. And you refuse to acknowledge its not improving under FF/FG who control DCC.

The numbers are available here:(see below)

Programmes 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total

New Build – DCC 271 302 455 1,860 2,888

New Build - AHB’s 403 343 284 609 1,639

Once Sinn fein was taken out of DCC the numbers went up. Massively went up!!!! even with Covid

But as I said the most damning part of Sinn Fein running DCC is they managed to end up with 1300 less houses in 2019 than they started with in 2014

How many people would be off the street if Sinn Fein even managed to keep the same number of houses they had in 2014. 1300 homes with minimum 2 people per home is 2600 people off the homeless list.

Terrible that people are on the street because of Sinn Fein and to make matters worse, Sinn Fein keep blocking the projects that could replenish these houses

https://dublininquirer.com/2019/03/20/council-owns-1-300-fewer-social-homes-than-four-years-ago

I think you answered that best yourself

Horse leavings.

Its complete nonsense that SF could or were responsible for housing because they'd more seats than any other party, but less than FF and FG combined while the housing and local authority minister was FG too. And currently FF have the most seats, are in government and things are worse.

No need to relish the idea of more homeless. Not nice.

I dunno, you seem obsessed about DCC for a four year period. What about the rest of Dublin, the country for the last decade and currently?