Can Sinn Fein fix the housing crisis or is it beyond them or anybody else?

We have to be weened off renting and buying. It will be a slow process. FF/FG have put us in the position were we need to rent and buy because they never seriously started to prepare to move us away from it. Much in the way they took other emergency items such as hotels and b&bs and made them part of the regular system. A colossal waste of tax payer money and all to feed the private industry of investors.

I would make it that they sell off or give away any property investment interests while we are deemed to be in crisis. They cannot be trusted to make the right decision for the tax payer due to conflict of interest. If you want to be a property investor, you can't be a TD. This would include any funds engaged in it.

Property investment companies aren't flooding into Ireland to help us out.

By "we" you mean the state can. No thanks Rich Boy Barrett

What do you propose? Stay the course?

They will tell you after they figure out what the popular view is, then change it if that view changes

That’s the Sinn Fein way, whatever way the wind blows Sinn Fein goes

SF are telling everyone what they want to hear, if you sit and try add it all up it will never work. According to them they are going to tax the rich, while at the same time telling the rich they will never do that

High earners will pay more tax while telling them they will get a tax reduction by removing property tax

Going to hire more doctors while telling the doctors they are going to tax them at a higher rate so they will have less income???

Thats just the start of the problem with SF and their policies. Within 12 if they try to implement we will be sitting with the entire country back in 2008 and Europe bailing us out

Sinn Fein have played the classic Trump/Johnson card of populism. They have simply promised to much.

So be it. Its a conflict of interest during a crisis. All politicians should sell up or give away all property interests before taking office. Their immediate family too.

Posters here dont seem to get that if you are one of the 300,000 young workers forced to live at home due to housing then job growth and the economy mean nothing to you. I was unemployed during covid and it mean no big difference. Im at home working 2 jobs trying to save a deposit, and at that I'll be forced to move county. Id be cheering an economic collapse to collapse house prices.

Its the desperation and the massive intergenerational inequality that has caused these views and FFG wont do anything to stop that

Personally, if at the end of a SF term I had a letter saying I had an apartment in a cost rental/ public housing development once it is completed in x amount of years Id vote them back in

Id likely vote them back in anyway given how FFG forced me to emigrate to England a decade ago after college and refused to help house me when I got a job in Ireland again

A house is a huge investment for the person, the seller, the bank etc

Lots of houses get bought and sold very easily, of course some take longer and that’s the ones you hear about, not about the quick ones

At the moment the issue is supply, the amount of projects rejected or spend years in court before they finally get approvals they should have got in first place is the delay

We Ned to streamline the planning process, also stop the ability of political parties to block housing and make sure these mindless rejections are stopped. Like I seen apartments been held up because someone is saying it will cast a shadow on their house in the morning 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Oscar Traynor is private developers building on public lands. Public lands should only be used for public housing built by the state. The 60,000 households on hap who should be in public housing attests to that