Lack of long term camping sites in Dublin!

What time did you enquire?

You'd create a shanty town in an instant.

How much do you think it would cost the state to run and manage it? Why would they not just spend that money on actual housing, rather than a clean shanty town (it would still be a shanty town)?

I was just saying this to someone recently.

I was thinking those greenfields on the Southside luas near cherrywood would be perfect.

I think it's a good idea. Most trailer parks in America are fine.

It's very low cost for government, they just regulate and zone it.

Residents purchase the camper, trailer or caravan and pay rent to management

Building is only one element. How do you propose funding the running of this proto-favela?

So you don't actually have a sound plan for how it would be funded.

Funding it would take more money out of the budget to build actual houses - just as building it would. For a ridiculously subpar option that would probably see people die in winter due to not wanting to spend what is required to heat a campervan, and would definitely end up being permanent - there are entire housing estates of "temporary, ten year" prefab houses built around London and SE England in 1946 still there.

The state is not actively encouraging and facilitating them to do so, as they would in this proposal

I think it's a very good question and there really is no excuse for not having facilities like this. Of course, some will moan about trailer parks and the like but it should be as much a part of our housing strategy as building apartments of 3 bed semi ds. Won't suit everyone but will be fine for others.

Personally I think partly the reason is that Irish people have got too snobbish & spoilt. When I was young, a camping holiday in Ireland was fairly normal. But that became too much hardship and with cheap flights and holidays abroad, staying in hotels etc has become more the norm. So the idea that people would choose to live in a mobile home or caravan or even camp now for a period, is beyond those that make such decisions. They look down on it.

heres a mental idea, why not build suitable accommodation such as standard 3/4 bed houses and 1/2 bed apartments, i know, i know, a mental idea!