"average Dublin house prices should fall to ‘the €300,000 mark" according to Many Lou McD.

We built almost 10,000 social houses a year during the 1970s, when we were one of the poorest countries in Europe with a population not far off half of what it is now. And plenty of other countries in the year 2024 are still building large amounts of social housing. Theres absolutely nothing stopping us from doing the same now other than governmental policy, its not remotely "pie in the sky stuff".

Nobody in 2024, anywhere in the world, is building anything like Ballymun. Do a little reading on modern social housing projects to educate yourself.

Whats your alternative, that we just allow HAP to keep growing, at a cost of billions of euros to the state? Further crowding out more and more renters from the private rental market every year, using their own tax euros against them?

Most people on HAP would prefer to be in a permanent home of their own, not stuck in the private rental market subject to eviction at a landlord's whim. The same as anyone else in the rental market.

yes some of these areas may already suffer from increased social dysfunctions, such as those mentioned, but uprooting a load of people, and moving them elsewhere, would more than likely lead to a significant increase in these social dysfunctions including increasing crime rates, as social connections are abruptly broken and in cases severed permanently....

for example, if moving means moving further away from employment, schools and other critical social needs....

As I said many times, the only advantage I see from a Sinn Fein government is they might, not guaranteed, stop blocking houses/apartments like they have been doing for the last years.

As you say it's all noise from the party, nothing add's up but of course a few people will lap it up because they have the attention span of a goldfish and don't want to know more

...again, reelecting ffg, will probably help resolve our most prominent issues!

...yes all our political parties are talking sh1te, all of them!

SF likley would stop blocking permissions because it would be in their interest to see the housing stock rise, but their attack on investment funds means fewer devrlopments will be constructed in the first place, which means a decline in new homes.

Approving a new build estate is pointless if there is no money to build it and a SF led govt, through the blocking of financial investment funds, will oversee a reduction in new homes to market, not an increase.

Its a turkey voting for xmas if people vote SF and want to see more homes being built.

More units will resolve it.

true, its a significant supply problem, only problem is, ffg have largely ignored the severity of this supply problem, ignoring what respected commentators have been advocating for, i.e. effectively double the figures of what ffg have been proposing, our governments, past and present, have also largely ignored the resources thats required to achieve these numbers, i.e. training thats required. so we re now left with an extremely serious supply problem, a major deficit in supply, and a major deficit in people able to build whats required, all of which will require years, if not decades to resolve....

...theres no melodrama here, this is our now reality, again, we re now experiencing an extremely serious housing deficit, of which was actually foreseen for many years, reported since the height of the last crash, all governments since then have been deeply misinformed of its seriousness, and have been making bad decisions after bad decisions since, so much so, we actually dont know what to do next....

...yes the blocking of developments have very badly effected completions, but our problems are in fact far deeper, our state simply doesnt know what to do next, and again, that includes all parties....

...this problem will persist into the next decade, by then there will more than likely be significant social and political problems, including the potential of an extreme party, similar to other nations....

Because they are anti investment funds (openly) but they fail to see that without investment funds, most residential construction projects aren't viable and simply wont be built.

35k is not an impressive number, it should not be being applauded.

Our population increased by by approx 100k last year, and in 2022, and will likely increase by similar this year. That increase requires about 40,000 houses built just to accomodate them. Nevermind replace existing housing units, or make any dent in the housing crisis.

35k home is far less than we need. The ESRI's most recent estimate is 60k+ a year.

Twenty years ago, with a much smaller population, we were building 90k a year.

Its an utter failure of our current government's policies that the housing completion numbers haven't increased faster.

Oh it’s all melodrama, quite amusing to read it to be honest.

Its not nothing was my point.

I said we should be delivering more, but some people go on as if there is nothing being built.

Dublin is swamped with apartment developments at the moment.

The 90k homes was when we had a much larger construction work force, so we wont hit those numbers, but I think we should be working towards 50k.

We still have estates gettin repairs at the moment with poor quality.

Plus the price of houses for both would increase because the councils would have to take staff off constuction companies and that would require higher wages....so instead of reducing the price it would increase the overall price per unit

In the 90s a single person working could buy a house in Dublin

now for most people it takes 2 salary's the population has increased there's not enough houses or apartments to meet demand Dublin has transformed in the last 20 years since the big tech company's arrived

There's an option to change old office buildings that are empty to housing

And it costs 250k plus to build a house

The cost of building labour materials has increased

Building standards have massively increased, which is good, a house built in 2004 shouldn't need upgrades only 20 years later yet they are all required to get upgrades in a lot of cases.

The houses getting built now are at a high rating which will mean in 20 years time they shouldn't require upgrades.

I rented houses built in that era and it felt like you lived with your neighbour in some of them.