Is housing really that bad or is it just another hyped up 'crisis'?

It's definitely not hyped, if I was looking for somewhere to rent right now looking of daft.ie would put me into a depression that I genuinely wouldn't be able to get out of. It feels hopeless as theirs no easy solution.

Please name satellite towns with plenty of housing available.

You cant be having riff raff near my little johnny....

Oh noes, strangers using my road and my gym and my shops.

Yup. You reap what you sew.

Those 26 pieces of stupid legislation hammering landlords, putting in rent freezes, slaughtering people on tax, made it incredibly difficult, expensive, and risky to be a housing provider or developer. So we said feck ye, and left the market and took our business elsewhere.

What did you fooking expect? Units to fall from the sky? Ireland needs to grow up and be accountable for the idiotic decisions made. Maybe if you got off the mammeries of your nanny state expecting social housing to be laid on a plate. Rip out the rubbish that was put in place , and make it make sense to build and rent again. But, I've a feeling it needs to get a lot worse before it will get better. Let SF have a go sure.

Single Mother - 19 and 1 child.

Given a 2 bed brand new build house in North East Kildare valued at 350k. 50 Euro a Week.

The working man or woman need to have a deposit of 35k and a salary of 90K to be able to finance that. God forbid they have missed a direct debit though. They'll be blacklisted for that.

A family also in North East Kildare- 2 parents and 3 kids given a brand new build 3 bed semi valued at 420k. 75 euro a week.

You do that maths on that one.

Now I know the types of responses I'll get on here but the above just isn't right in any way shape or form. I even look at the affordable housing bodies here in Kildare and their prices fare off the charts for cost rental long term tenancies.

The middle classes don't have a hope in life at this rate. We've been let down badly and have let ourselves down badly for letting things get this bad. This policy has been implemented by consecutive FF/FG governments since the 60's and 70's and these are the results.

In Dublin there is definitely I know a place where they are struggling to find a pool manager after the last fella retired (Clontarf area). They can't open the pool until they find a pool manager. And why can't they find one?

Cost of houses to rent/buy are too expensive for any person who is qualified! I was shocked. It would be a lovely job for someone as well.

And I was talking to a to a young girl from down the country who was working in Dublin. It was cheaper for her to live down the country and have an over two hour commute to work than live in Dublin.

Yeah I think if people laid out all their beliefs and really examined the parts that conflict, lots of old people would support building houses even if it took a few percent off their own house value. But people don't tend to audit their beliefs like that.

I think the parties that cater to unthinking old people are happy to talk a lot about fixing the problem but are not willing to risk hurting their vote base.

It's a voter generation who bought council houses built and paid for by their parents generation. And when it was their turn to build and pay for more houses for the next generation, they voted for tax cuts for themselves instead. Jow the young people have little access to housing and are working their ass off to pay rent and pay tax to pay those older generation's health care bill.

I don't hold out hope of that older generation becoming altruistic any time soon.

the only option now is to vote Sinn Fein when the time comes they will sort us out with houses if we look after them in the election.

There are plenty of satellite towns but do any of them have any available places to rent? Not according to daft anyway. Assuming this man did look for accommodation in Limerick and surrounding towns, Co Clare (of which there is very little, as well as competition for the places) what other options do you think he has?

You have to go back to the housing boom, an awful people the past 15 years managed to hang on to properties they bought in that period. They either outgrew the property and moved on and become what is called reluctant landlords. Basically the price they paid for the property was no where near the value at time, so they were hanging on and letting them out.

Because of work from home policies during the pandemic people were no longer geographically tied to the area they worked in so they willingly left rentals which they actually because of government legislation had security in, sitting tenants which makes up 99% of all tenants are paying only 3-4% rent inflation.

So 2 things happened in the Summer of 2020, we hit a 5 year high for available rentals and house prices began to drop.

Then came the usual hyperventilating, the likes of Ronan Lyons with his quarterly property porn index began to stoke the market. The panic starts again.

Because of record levels of savings, people had deposits, relatively low interest rates, house prices inflated, reluctant landlords got out and the rental market for new tenants shrank, with the rents going up because this is not protected by legislation. This is made "worse" because far less people are moving between rentals because of prices assurance and things like the eviction ban.

So a lot of people got caught, because of the rapid rise in houses prices and the fact they left rentals, they are still at mums.

The "reluctant landlord" played a significant role in the rental market, but they are gone, they are not coming back to the same degree.

Please NAME them.

Because the rest of are having difficulty finding them.

If there are plenty, it shouldn't be difficult.

Would agree with you. Those working are the ones really struggling.

You mention FF/FG, but should SF get into power next time round, they will only hand over more 'free' or cheap houses to similar people. They ain't going to fix the issues present for working people who can't afford homes.