Record homeless Figures yet again , now at 13,500.

Are you just going to post the same FFG heebie-jeebies in every thread possible?

We all get. You have a hard on for FFG losing power. You dont need to jizz it all over every thread.

Build it whatever way you can. Don't finish half it inside, or have anything around it but don't spend 400k if there's any way at all to reduce that.

Nobody notices or cares except you, if you've marble or the cheapest nastiest tiles in the shop. They can all be thrown out later when/if there's a few bob around. Trust me on this. I did it the other way.

Better times come. You can sit on a second hand couch for a couple of years. It doesn't feel much different.

Best of luck.

So the government is not destroying the country? is that what you said a few posts back…?

I'm afraid you seem to be the immature one here.

Government haven't built social housing in any kind of proper figures for decades! Hence the housing shortage.

Prices of materials and Labour have all increased hugely due to world events, I'm sure you must have heard about them.

When you think you heard everything on here, now the foreigners are to blame for the expensive cost of construction.

Don't like the truth so you resort to personal abuse. Mature.

We don't need to.

But we could solve it here this year, if they actually cared.

Those 1.5 million that live overseas you always trot out are over a period of what 90 years ? Are they all emigrants, did some of them come back ?

What's your stats.

Those 700,000 foreign born are almost all within the last 20 years into Ireland.

You can fly into Ireland from a certain ethnic group with a bunch of kids in toe and IMMEDIATELY get higher priority for housing than a homeless Irish man. Anybody who is familiar with North Inner City Dublin, as is the Master of the Rotunda Hospital, knows what's going on.

Well I think you are still considered homeless if you just have a hostel bed for example.

But on the wider issue, while having a roof over your head might make you not homeless right now, in the current rental environment, if you are renting, you don't know how long you will be in your current unit and, if you are evicted whether, you will be able to find another place in time. If you fail to do so, you will find yourself homeless and adding to the homeless statistics, even if you have a job and money to pay for rent.

So in order to tackle the homeless issue you need to look beyond purely the number sleeping on the streets right now. You need to increase the number of available accommodation units. You need to keep prices low and increase security of tenancy.

Fair enough, but do you see them winning any seats?

There is an historic abhorrence for renting. Much of the 19th and early 20th century there was an all out effort to stamp out predatory renting of property, break up the big estates and enable people to own their own house and work their own land.

Germany and Austria have healthy renting culture because people upsize and downsize according to their needs. You won't see single person in 3 bed council house/flat, which is a norm in Ireland, just because it's "forever" home. No it's not forever home, it's not yours, and you don't have any rights. Single? Go to 1 bed flat and be happy, 3 bed is for a family

They do that in the UK as well, It's called the "Bedroom Tax". If you have one bedroom more in your council flat, and one less is living in the apartment, you will feel the financial implications as well.