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

Complain about the lack of rental properties

complain about large rental companies buying houses to rent

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The information release shows the majority of houses in ireland are bought by people who are living in them.

The “information” you are finding on Twitter is rubbish 👍👍

This is it!

Im earning 40,000 and Im working a second part time weekend job to save a deposit. Im actually willing to live anywhere within a 2 hour commute of Dublin so I can own a home. The problem is, to move to Wexford or Louth (two areas that I can afford a 1 bed after a year of saving), is that the mortgage will be affordable in the region of 500 a month, but the cost to get to work would be - car loan of a 10 year old seat in the region of 150 a month, insurance for a new driver at 30 180 a month, and fuel costs in the region of 600 a month. So between transport and mortgage its 1750 a month. Add in bills etc your looking at 2100 or more before Ive spent a penny. So no way to afford to have a night out, no holidays, no savings etc. It would literally be work and sitting in the house. Thats no life

You posted this before, a full thread. You got loads of advice and you can buy in Dublin, even some lovely people finding locations with properties available to buy in budget.

“your rulers are lying to yous” 🤦‍♂️

So you want to shut down all rental apart from renting off a government agency?

Sounds great comrade

Some of us want to live in a socialist society comrade

It could have been so different. I think they got away with clearing out the work class dockers of Dublin 1 and 2 to create the modern docklands for the cream of transient European high income earners, got no pushback when traditional working class areas like Stoneybatter and the Liberties became the home of the upper middle classes and now when the outer suburbs are out of reach of the working classes who grew up in them the damage has been too far gone.

I doubt 30 years ago many people would have taken the deal of "You can be a rich country and go to college for 5 years and the Canaries for a week once a year, but your children will never be able to live in the communities their families grew up in" as a good compromise

It’s a war….the alternative was to let people die

I think you should mention “foreign landlords” a few times, I guess that works on the likes of twitter to get the outrage going

It doesn’t matter what location a landlord is based in, ireland needs a functioning rental system. The days of small landlords are gone because tenants in ireland wanted the regulations and laws changed. So the only people that it is feasible anymore is large scale landlord that can take rip off tenants to court.

The biggest mistake in the past, which was confirmed after the crash, was the lack of large scale landlords in ireland and we needed to invest in a proper rental system

Not everyone lives in Dublin you know!!

14% go on, tell us how you got this number? 👍

I tried this on other threads but didn’t seem to work as the people on those threads have zero interest in solving the housing crisis

Everyone who is sick of the housing crisis and wants it resolved should be contacting all of their local TD, especially if you support a specific party. They should be telling that TD if they find out they are blocking housing in their area they will automatically lose their vote and of course name as many people

No political party should be blocking housing. If a department of education etc block them on the grounds of not enough schools well then that is valid reasons but it should not be done by parties, especially ones who are only blocking because it is in their interest to make the housing crisis worse.

It would be interesting to see how many people on this thread will even consider contacting the TD, or is this thread like many others, just created to have a pop at a party because someone supports another party and they couldn’t care less about the people wrapped up in the housing crisis

You forgot the crony stuffed planning board. Tbf, let's pretend you are right, which you're not, if FG and FF combined for near two government terms couldn't solve housing why bother voting for them? Is it a few plucky councillors in every council in every part of the country stopping them? Its not a believable scenario now is it? Take DCC. More FF than any other party. FG has the second most seats. They've the whole government behind them. So DCC's district must be a Shangri la for housing, right? Its not though is it? Why is that, **** government?

It never will be, as I said look at the first post on this thread, they are not even in government and you are starting to see it all over the web. The excuses to why SF wont be able to fix anything if they get into government. The laughable thing is they think polls are an actual election

Facts don't matter. Its them Shinners that have cause this crisis

From Gerry Adams to Mary Lou, they have left the country with a housing crisis before they even got into Govt

A remarkable achievement alls things considering