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

housing / house prices are shocking here for example article in indo today raising issue of dublin house buyer paying the typical dublin house price of 500,000 by using the inheritance from parents (335,000 provided in advance of parents demise if they were that "lucky") and then buyers still struggling even with loan to income now raised to 4 times earnings to pay the remaining balance of 165,000 euros

there is something seriously wrong with the country

The housing crisis is a major part of the staffing crisis.

You'd expect London to be more expensive because it is a major global city, a massive financial centre, one of the most influential cultural hubs in the English speaking world, a playground for the rich and famous, by far the largest economy of any city in Europe.

Galway is lovely but would hardly be considered a city outside of Ireland.

Is that really what you understood from what I wrote?

No market functions unless it is beneficial for both the buyer and the seller. If the service provider can't make ends meet, they take their skills and leave. That's just reality. And that's what happened. The approach of keep the beatings going until morale improves didn't work. But sure keep it up. See how it goes.

Landlords are in business .. like every other business , if circumstances change they'll change their business model - but at the moment they're making a killing , and are lobbying for "no change"

Anyone who has a house wants their home values to stay high especially if they've a high mortgage..

A lot are objecting to any change in the local environment ( new estates ,higher buildings ) , which makes planning and development expensive.

A lot object to social housing being built near them - it may devalue their house - and with the way our local authorities work ,a couple of "concerned" councilors can stymy any development ,

Add to that land hoarding /lack of land taxes for land banks undeveloped buildings ,

Developers struggling to get finance

Lack of building staff

Add to that our population has gone up by 10% in less than a decade ..

And an inbuilt hatred for apartments/ modular builds , emergency builds ..

We're all to blame - but the last couple of governments have achieved very little ..

Well, as someone else said "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."

Was talking to a builder recently. He said the government has introduced too many silly regulations, is criucifying builders on tax, fu@@ed builders and the industry when the crash came, and not trained hardly any new people. All the builders that are left now in the industry now are like him, oldish fellows. Young people just want risk free soft government jobs with big pensions, and well paying computer jobs he said.

I used to be an accidental landlord, but I don't envy them. Everyone thinks they are all raking it in, when many are struggling.

Add to this the fact that many aren't allowed to increase rent while their mortgages are shooting up, plus if their tenant decides to stop paying, they can't evict them. Yeah, being a landlord is fantastic.

There are homeless people all over this country on good wages. I know several. Anyway someone not having any friends or family, of which there are plenty of people does not mean that the current housing situation isn't an absolute farce landed on us by decades of that shower in the Dail.

You don't see people criticising shopkeepers for putting up their prices when their suppliers put their prices up? Is it not a similar situation. Costs for making bread go up, cost of bread goes up. Cost of paying for house goes up, rent goes up? Are they not similar?

Its pretty dire.

We have **** all houses. Greed. governance and developers have led us to this point. It's a dysfunctional sector and it's heavily weighted in the developers interest.

I've always asked a certain question when I hear developers crying about the lack of profits.

How much profit do they want to make out of a 3 bed semi?

Belfast: SF claim theres a housing crisis and campaigned to start building a new super estate which is going to be called Glenmona at the foot of blacks mountain west Belfast. It's supposed to be an 85 acre urban village when completed, the reality it'll be another high density slum and wrecked no sooner built. Plenty of houses available in nationalist areas but they've high levels of crime and anti-social behaviour. Smart, building another slum instead of cleaning up the problem areas.

The ground works on the new estate have started, hopefully I'll be out of this town before it's completed but interesting to see if SF stay true to their remit, mixed social and affordable housing. Now SF did leave the remit open by stating it's primarily for people in a housing emergency. Meaning? It's a bit open ended has no clear definition. The current build nearing completion built as more or less units for people with disability mobility problems and off certain ages down the road from where I live I await with unbated breath to see who gets 1st dibs, I doubt I'll be surprised.

Places reliant on tourism do.

I dont think there's a crisis.

There is, as there has been for many years, a lack of free home next to mummy crisis. You know, a home in the GDA which many working folks, myself included in a household with 125-150k combined income, cannot likely afford.