How to make a housing crisis WORSE

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We explore how the Irish government is exacerbating the housing crisis with its various bans on different types of living.

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I hate the fact that government hates us building up. Good quality apartments would help alleviate some of the pressure. As a young person I prefer to rent in the city and enjoy this life before moving to a quieter area and buying a house. Unfortunately neither of these are possible at the moment

drkamikaze
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People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.

CameronFussner
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I lived in Dublin 9, Phibsboro, worked in Eircom in Clontarf, used to pay 400e for a room in a house back in 2010, the price was going up steadily to around 1000e per month and the only way to get that room would be if someone is moving out as his replacement. I moved back to Slovakia, wages here are much lower, but so are the rents. I can afford more than I used to in Dublin.

fotoz
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I’d love to move into a Danish Style Co-Housing situation with private kitchen/bathroom/living room along with shared communal spaces for meals, bike sharing, community garden, green energy etc etc. Solves housing, climate & loneliness crises all in one. Will the Irish public or politicians wake up to the idea? Probably not. Guess we’ll be dying alone in substandard living conditions then 🙄🤦‍♂️

rinnin
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Never understood the ban on co-living. Any time something is being built for young single people it's met with shrieks about it being completely unsuitable for raising a family in like every person needs a 3+ bedroom semi D with a garden and a trampoline. Why it's legal to squash 4 adults who don't know into a dilapidated 3 bedroom F rated corpo house but it's illegal to have a small private 1-bed with a shared kitchen is beyond me.

krombopulos_michael
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Left Ireland last year. Couldn't have made a better decision. We moved to the Netherlands (which also has a housing crisis!) and finding a place here was like playing on easy mode compared to Ireland.

You can't ban your way to fixing a housing shortage.

BogFiets
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I moved to New Zealand last year...despite the housing shortage in Auckland life in terms of work life balance and pay is better

warbler
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Those who pine for the days of the bedsit never lived in one. Their only experience might’ve been at a student party when they were langered. My memory of bedsits is a bit different, having lived in a few over the years. There’s not only the fact that your bed was basically the sofa and the dinner table; there was also the small matter of a toilet you feared to enter because the landlord hadn’t cleaned it since 1963 and a shower you could catch leprocy from.

It like having nostalgia for the hovels of the 1800s because sure didn’t the mould make people tough and you were poor but you were happy!

There are other better solutions to the property crisis. Falling back on bedsits is an admission that Ireland lacks the will or the interest in solving the crisis beyond quick fix gimmicks.

Whatshisname
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I remember going to view a "studio" in 2018 and the bed was almost touching the stove/oven. And if you were too tall for bed you would have to open the oven door so your feet could hang off the bed. Also if you sat on the toilet you had to keep the bathroom door open as your knees went past the door jam. This was all for the exclusive price of €1020 per month. In north Dublin

brwnydb
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This is spot on, It's been on the north side of impossible to try find a place in this market and they aren't making anything easier for us, I'm one bad day from being homeless and there's absolutely shite all I can do about it

Stuck right out in the middle of nowhere with an hour commute into the closest town just so we can have an affordable place to stay, it's insane...

aliceoftheabyss
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Allowing for all types of accommodation provided the regulation and enforcement is there is fine, however there isn't enough enforcement on tenancies right now to justify immediately lifting it.

I lived in a co-living place abroad for a while, its fine for a year maybe 2, but in the long run other types of housing suits better. Students and young professionals needing a year in Dublin is one thing, housing supply for long-term tenants is another.

Ensuring actual apartments and social housing units are built, as well as cities and towns effectively planned to facilitate these developments is the real way to improve the housing crisis, and improving enforcement of regulations to allow for such low-cost short-term accommodation is needed too, but you can't put the cart before the horse or all you'll do is create low standard expensive units.

barbarianislander
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None of this would matter if the government built housing. We cant recruit people for a tech sector or health service if people pay too much for housing. The government should treat housing as an economic unit same way they build roads and train lines. The lack of achievable aspiration in this video is clearly pragmatic but depressing

warbler
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As a former house builder/developer (and student of the rental market) I can endorse this analysis in its entirety.

kc
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This is only a minor factor with the supply of rental accommodation.
The real issue is planned objections.
The planning system needs to be reformed one minor change to the planning process that would make a big difference would be to have a distance limit of the primary residence from the proposed development in my opinion 5km should be the limited. If so many developments held up wouldn't have been, included the Galway ring road. Many developments are waiting on others to get the green light before they submit for planning.

The planning process really is the main constraint in Ireland.
Also high rise developments should be allowed in certain locations.

diarmaidmoloney
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I am sharing since 2017. It's not the best really. I hate this accommodation but this is what I have for now.

zoso
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Grma for the videos lads! I emigrated a few years ago to a city where rent is also high but housing laws less regulated. Lived in a bedsit (decent size, ~15 sqm) in an old townhouse for a year, room would have orginally been a living room or large bedroom. The bathroom was outside the room and shared with the guy living in the room across from me. Most importantly for me at the time (24-25 yrs old), it was cheap-ish and smack-bang in the middle of the city. Overall, for that period of my life, I really enjoyed my time there. Completely unsuitable however for my current life circumstances.

uvacasmweeniv
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Great video, I grew up in a bedsit with my ma and da in early 90s beside big tree pub on Dorset St, we had our own house we had our own bathroom, and it's was a stepping stone for us, it's funny how the people making the rules probably never lived in a bedsit

oldskoolclassic
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The bedsit ban was well intended but resulted in thousands of people being made homeless.

It didn’t take into account affordability either, which has resulted in thousands living in hotel rooms, shelters or on the streets.

It should have only ever been for new conversions/builds.

michaelmulligan
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Bedsit is another word for studio apt. They're OK.. Ban the dystopian house share model. It's totally inhumane to live in a box room with strangers

booster
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Ask yourself what sector of the Irish population owns most of the rental property. Then ask yourself where the various ministers get their advice and instructions from. Any connections?

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