solve the housing problem easily...some solutions?

Build Ballymun style social blocks again, but with lightning fast enforcement.

Each block is managed/monitored consistently and has plentiful cctv in the common areas, if young Damo starts writing on the walls or smashing up the playground its coming out of Jacinta and Damo seniors pocket (advance deposit required).

Any pattern of scumbaggery and out you go. With the blessing of the court. As per the mandatory contract which all residents must sign.

Thats the price, you get to move in to a quiet, wonderfully maintained, cheap rate accommodation, but you (and young Damian) are never more than a few days from management evicting you.

I don't think you realise that people on the housing list are offered houses in the same areas and the areas are usually small towns and villages with limited infrastructure and jobs, areas and estates where there would tend to be a higher rate of crime and where people are more likely to be made feel intimidated by other residents in the area. The placement of individuals on the housing lists is almost like an attempt of shaming of the individual or family by the housing authority. I truly feel that this is part of the reason why they're not buying up vacant houses in towns and cities and allocating them to people on the housing list.

They also need to expand the qualifying eligability and increase the income treshold for social housing, its not just people on social welfare who cant afford to rent or buy, lots of working people cant either but don't meet the criteria because they live with their parents/family and thats considered suitable accommodation or theyre just over the financial treshold.

They need to block vulture funds and introduce rent caps. They should be buying up vacant houses and buildings and making them liveable, homeless charities are already doing this with funding and donations so theres no reason why the government cant do it too besides them just not wanting to do it.

The government could solve this housing crises overnight if they wanted to but either theyre totally incompetent or theyre profiting of the suffering of people so are refusing to do anything about it.

I am aware what the locals only planning laws apply to and still think they should be removed. There is still a density to rural development even if it is a low density. The farm land where I live used to have just one house and now it has four which means the taxes and other types of contributions from more people are helping provide for the services that are in place in the area. We don't normally have to worry about traffic locally as we are about twenty minute drive form the nearest city and there is no problem with inefficient public transport as there simply isn't any. I understand you might think density is positive for residential development but having lived in urban settings in the past I appreciate the space where I live now and would not want to move back to high density living. I think people should have choices in the type of home they have and solving the housing problem in this country could be easier if we simply removed some of the regulations that make having some types of housing more difficult.

Lower the standards the PRTB are allowed to demand from landlords. There are empty properties all over the country that are habitable, or could be made so extremely quickly and cheaply. I know my circa 1920's terrace couldn't pass a PRTB rental inspection in a fit but it's still a perfectly nice place to live for me and my family.

While it makes perfect sense to ensure all new builds meet the highest standards of energy efficiency, there's no reason to insist on that for older properties being added to the rental market.

There is a huge social cost to rural living. Services just cannot be provided to the same levels. All one-off housing should be banned. There is plenty of available land in rural Ireland inside town and village boundaries, that is where sustainable communities can be built.

Thats just nonsense.. Absolute and utter horsesH**

Ukrainian refugees are being housed in hotels, tents, hostels, given rooms in peopls homes.

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"You need critical mass to justify services,"

Yes this is the point I was trying to make in my last post. The farm land where I live in the past had just one household to pay towards the services in the area of the farm whereas now there are four houses on that area of farm land so more taxes and other contributions to the costs of those services. The hedge cutting is not done by the county council but paid for by the owners of the farm land. The road maintenance would still need to be done even if there were less homes in the area as the farms and other homes in the area are not suddenly going to be abandoned because you think everyone should move to live in high rise apartment blocks. The ESB networks charges the house builder in our situation for the cost of connecting to the national grid, the water well is paid for the house builder, the waste water treatment is paid for by the home builder and the phone and internet we use here is from mobile network providers which are independent businesses who would find it hard to sell their service if they only connected people in areas that were up to your standard of sufficiently urban. The homes I have mentioned don't use the existing local school bus service but if they did they would help it be more economically run with the costs spread over a greater number of people. There is a primary school in the village a mile away that could benefit from more students being available in the area.

Your statement that living here is subsidised by urban dwellers is not true like a lot of the other details in your comment. You could equally say that urban dwellers are subsidised by people living in rural areas producing the food urban area residents need to continue to live and not charging them more for it. Your points also make no sense because you can't simply get rid of rural areas in the country and the best way forward for the country as a whole in my opinion is to allow more rural development as these areas have the space that people need to live comfortably. Its fine to have some areas with dense residential development and that also needs to be made more efficient with more streamlined zoning of suitable land in urban areas and another point I made was that there should be government financing to allow owners of substandard housing bring it up to modern standards so it could be available quickly to solve the current housing problem here.

"demandign hospitals in every corner of every town."

and

"If you want to live liek that then thats fine but don't bitch"

Are just examples of things you have said in your comment that I simply don't know how to sensibly reply to.

The rules for social housing prioritisation should be standard across the country and completely transparent.

Current method will and is breeding resentment for people who see others housed ahead of them.

Reward workers when prioritising.

Conduct an audit of all social housing claimants close relatives also in receipt of social housing to see if they can be accommodated with a parent or sibling

1. Relax height restrictions
2. Put a cap on the number of properties TD's can own, no more turkeys voting on xmas
3. Look at the Billions spent on HAP and find a way to start spending that money on building houses
4. Put a cap on the number of Ukrainians we can take, enough of the virtue signalling nonsense. Yes most are currently staying in hotels etc. but they will eventually put pressure on housing, anyone who thinks they will all eventually go home is living in cuckoo land.
5. Revamp our immigration system, make it easier to deport illegal immigrants and criminals. Stop funding NGOs that promote economic migration

• Build basic housing as social housing
• Social housing should only ever be considered temporary - no such thing as a house for life and it should be checked and verified contstantly. There should be incentives to encourage low paid workers to buy and leave their social housing. Councils should never ever be allowed to sell their social housing stock.
• New build estates when giving planning permission should have caps set on selling price. The days of developers making huge profits should be in the past.
• Encourage muti generational living - offer incentives for granny or granddad to move in with her son or daughters family thus freeing up the elderly persons house for sale or rent.
• Offer lower social housing rent to families who share - for example Mary and her 1 daughter live in a 3 bed council house. Marys sister Ellie lives down the road with her 1 daughter in another council house - encourage them to live together by charging a lower council rent thus freeing up a house.

This exactly. In my county its 9k you pay and what you get? Nothing. We still pay every year to cut edges, wont get planning without making sure you have proper waste water facitities, no public lightening etc etc.

Look at where tax is collected and where its spent. I'm not stating an opinion I'm stating a fact.

You paid 11K when you got planning permission. Great. The house will be used a residence for what 50 years ?? that's €220 a year. Less in real terms..

I just spent €6k to tar a 230m3 driveway.

Your also 100% car dependant for the rest of your life. Is your local village dieing ? Post office ? pubs ? When was the last time you used those facilities ?

Villages will continue to die untilt their populatiosn grow, One off houses do not contribute to villages the same as residents for the simple reason they once htey are in the car anyway they are more likely to go to the nearest town..

No other country in Western Europe allows the level of one off construction that we do. None,