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

Its funny how the shinners bladder on about how they will build all these houses if they are in power but never mention that there isn't the workers to actually put them up.

But sure it sounds great and its a vote catcher for the next GE.

Sinn Fein couldn’t fix a leaky fooking tap!

SF, alliance, unionism and Westminster can be blamed about issues in the north - not comparable at all to the republic's government setup. Don let facts get in your way though

The housing crises is by design. It is the one great success of FFG.

Could SF solve it? well it depends on whether or not they are complicit.

So you are saying that SF are ineffective at persuading coalition partners to deliver change. Not a good example, is it?

The facts are that SF have been in government in the North for decades now and have failed to deliver one single change. Says a lot about them.

We can expect a SF government in the South to take brave new initiatives on wood pellets and Irish language rights and sit on their hands for everything else.

Sinn fein is likely to be part of coalition government it's likely that it will need the agreement of other government partners to do anything, and thus at a time when we face rising energy costs and inflation and yearly threats from climate change

When discussing a market and market prices, it is normal, indeed it is sensible, to consider all the factors that affect demand and supply in that market.

Migration affects the demand for rental accomm, that is a simple fact.

To ignore a factor affecting demand is not reasonable.

https://eoinobroin.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/my-12-point-public-housing-plan-to-kickstart-the-housing-sector-post-covid19/#more-716

Here is Eoin O Broin's plan:

If I was the housing minister, this would be my 12-step post-crisis plan:

1. Do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Do not cut capital expenditure, income or rental supports. Do not lay off local-authority housing staff or encourage construction workers to emigrate.

2. Address the rent-arrears debt burden. This can be done with a combination of rent supplement payments, mortgage moratoriums for landlords, rent reductions and waivers.

3. Dramatically increase capital spending in public housing on public land as part of a major fiscal stimulus to kickstart the economy.

4. Agree five-year regional housing plans with councils, mapping out sites and the number of homes. Provide councils with multi-annual funding paid in advance instalments rather than in arrears by project.

5. End the practice of tendering for each public housing project and initiate regional framework agreements for different-sized housing developments, increasing competition and reducing cost.

6. Reintroduce the use of architecture competitions for key public housing developments to encourage innovation and experimentation.

7. Fast-track existing and new large-scale residential developments of mixed-income social, affordable rental and affordable purchase schemes on public land.

8. Radically change the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s public spending code: and the Department of Housing‘s four-stage approval process should be altered to cut red tape and speed up delivery.

9. Review all recent contracts in which private consortiums are developing mixed-tenure schemes, such as O’Devaney Gardens in Dublin. Where viability problems exist, transfer these back into council control.

10. Engage with developers and contractors on viability problems in their pipeline. By agreement or under compulsory purchase order, acquire these sites at existing use value.

11. Introduce legislation to amend the lending criteria of Home Building Finance Ireland to provide low-interest loans to developers and contractors subject to genuine affordability in house prices.

12. Split the Land Development Agency into a Land Management Agency (LMA) and a Residential Development Agency (RDA). Give the LMA compulsory purchase order (CPO) powers, a budget and real political backing to aggressively manage under-utilised public lands. Mandate the agency to increase the state‘s public land holdings through acquisition of appropriately priced and located sites. Give the RDA the power and staff to work with councils to ensure that public housing developments meet the highest possible standards in urban master planning, architectural design, building control and the lowest possible levels of embedded carbon emissions.

My query is about 3 and 7, and I welcome replies from any SF supporters.

If finance isn't an issue, and planning is fast-tracked, where do SF expect the extra building staff to come from?

There are 40,000 building staff on JSA "the dole", so do SF plan to encourage these people to leave JSA and take up employment?

Or will there be massive increases in apprenticeships?