The eviction ban

Bought by owner occupiers, disappear from the rental market. Similar to what is happening now, which is why it's near impossible to find a place to rent.

But on a bigger scale.

Prices might drop but that doesn't mean people will suddenly want to become landlords again given the country has made it only attractive for institutional investors.

We are making long term changes to the constitution of the rental market and that has big implications, as usual they haven't been thought through.

FFG have promised planning reform for 2 decades. A costly tribunal said reform was long overdue. Why is it so slow? FFG don't do reform.

Meanwhile...

An Bord Pleanála admits 'significant' backlog of cases (irishexaminer.com)

An Bord Pleanála has admitted it is struggling to deal with a "significant" backlog of cases, with nearly two-thirds of recent applications failing to get a decision by the expected deadline.

Irish Planning Institute vice president Gavin Lawlor said the reason for the backlog is “obvious”. 

He criticised what he claims is a "lack of urgency" on the issue by Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien, which he said is compounding the problem.

Five temporary board members, each with a year’s contract, have been added to An Bord Pleanála since January. Those appointments were made several months after the resignation of chairman Dave Walsh in November. Mr Walsh stepped down following the leaking of a damning internal An Bord Pleanála report condemning much of the board’s governance and oversight.

Backlog of cases at An Bord Pleanála now stands at 2,300 – the number it normally gets through in a full year

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Housing crisis: One year's supply stuck in An Bord Pleanála backlog | Newstalk

1 year's supply of housing is stuck in a planning backlog at An Bord Pleanála.

The analysis by Mitchell McDermott Construction Consultants finds that planners have yet to decide on 59% of the Strategic Housing Development (SHD) applications submitted last year.

That amounts to just under 29,000 homes – which is the number of homes the Government hopes will be delivered under its Housing for All plan this year.

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That's how serious the government is about fixing the housing disaster.

Fela on Virgin Media Tonight makes no apology for including Gardai in the Famine image.

Fionan Sheehan got very animated about it. The Independent being the newspaper of the Gardai.

No, because one of the regulations would be that selling a property would not be sufficient cause to evict a tenant. So when a block of flats is put on the market, any entity can bid on the tenanted building, and the tenant continues to pay rent at the agreed rate but to the new landlord.

here in Germany there's something called a schufa. It's a type of credit check. If you've been a non paying tenant, it's listed on the schufa. For every single property that's advertised, you have to provide a schufa. On the german equivalents of daft, you can apply for the schufa and you can attach it to your profile.

So the number of non paying tenants would be far lower here than in Ireland. You can view their entire rental history. There's also a deposit of three months rent. So losses due to damages would be less. It even has as a standard part of the contract that the apartment has to be repainted, generally in white, before moving out.

So landlords have very strong protections here.

However tenants also have strong protections. I can't be kicked out because he wants a family member to move in. He can't just up the rent. For a lot of tenancies, if the property is sold, the tenant goes with the apartment. The landlord buys it as a going concern. I'm far more protected here than I ever was in Ireland.

I doubt it. What most renters want is security. They just want to know that if they pay the rent they won't be homeless and the landlord won't hike the rent. My last landlord in Ireland wasn't registered with the RTB so there was nothing I could do when they bumped the rent by 40%. They said if I didn't agree then they'd sell. And they never performed basic repairs on the place.

All I ever wanted from renting was to know that i could keep paying rent and not be homeless and not worry about them gouging me for every penny they could get. But I lived in constant fear.

Now there's certain aspects of German rentals that are confusing. Most (about 80%) come without a kitchen. You either bring your own or you sell it onto the next tenant when you leave the apartment. And most come unfurnished. But there's a huge market in second hand furniture. At first I thought unfurnished was bad but I came to realise the most people build up bits and pieces overtime. Now i think I'd prefer to rent an unfurnished apt. Although a kitchen should be included.

You actually read the factcheck article? So your latest excuse and misinformation for the housing disaster is "SF aren't helping". They ALL aren't helping (Even Leo objects to housing) ...but here's some news - FF and FG are in government. They have the power to reform planning laws and speed up ABP decisions. Why are we waiting for so long??

I agree that you are a waffler and they have you fooled. They are irrelevant, their tweets are irrelevant. FFG need to build the houses and fix the housing disaster. It's that simple. The ABP backlog needs to be quickly fixed and objections from all politicians need to be swiftly death with. Swiftly. FFG have always loved bureaucracy and hated reform. They need to stop looking for scapegoats.