Ireland is facing one of Europe's worst housing shortages

Ireland faces one of Europe's worst housing shortages. Its roots lie in the global financial crisis of 2008, when banking failures burst the country's credit-fuelled property bubble. Today, the sector is still suffering, and the far-right is blaming it on refugees. Our correspondent Claire Herriot reports from Dublin.

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[mohammadjunaid]

Life's getting tougher with every passing year

[pp_Frog]

*Government* : Imports 1 million people within 12 years

*Creates the worst housing crisis in Irish history*

The government: 😮

[MdAminulIslam-unpi]

It is hard for Homeless people to survive Cold weather. Government must address the situation as soon as possible.

[donbabilio]

Unlimited migration leads to housing crisis

[derekkearns]

Far right no such thing in ireland. Concerned citzens agsinst a globilist government

[biulaimh]

The Irish government needs the housing crisis. Without it, all hell would break lose. Without a housing shortage, house prices might fall which could cause negative equity. People would stop paying their overpriced mortgages which would cause more mortgaged properties to fall into negative equity and prices would spiral downward until true price discovery is achieved. This would be a catastrophe for the Irish government as they borrowed 200 billion euro to reblow the bubble that popped in 2008.

[peterp]

and the avarage annual wage is 3 times the wage of avarage person, 30 years for an old crap sandbox

[bikeman]

Gotta say, that placard says it all, "Raise the roof, not the rent!". That is the solution. High rise buildings will permit more supply, and lower rents. But NIMBYIsM and cultural values and highly restrictive building codes and zoning prevent higher buildings which would help. Building higher buildings won't destroy the equity of existing homes, that's a red herring, a phantom fear. If that were true, you'd see evidence of it elsewhere, which you don't.

[Abuqital]

Palestine 🇵🇸 and ireland 🇮🇪 in solidarity

[ruthsmith]

Well done ladies for helping out the needy ❤️ The riots were over a migrant stabbing children and their career outside a school get it right. It was also an easy rob for people to steal from shops and cause havoc.

[brickie]

Mohamed Murphy is doing his best to rent homes for his newly found brothers and sisters in Dublin. Praise be to Alan

[patrickobrien]

Ireland has restrictive planning permission to build more houses and by giving asylum seekers more rights than Irish renters has created this problem it’s like going to a very busy night club that is full to capacity, until some people leave more can’t be allowed in Irish politicians don’t want to comply because they are complying with the WEF agenda like America’s open borders.

[lnobrienmovies]

Saying its not the governments fault, it's the landlords fault is so stupid, there are 80 landlords in the Fianna Fail house, why is it that Nurses get taxed more than landlords in this country

[ApinderSingh-bc]

Jobs is eazy accommodation is big problems for everyone in the county dublin its too expensive

[Freya]

Woman saying the government should be looking after us not foreigners while being fed by a charity run by Muslim women from immigrant and fails to see the irony. (But i bet she would say 'they are the good ones' if asked about it....)

[randomquestions]

If you put chinese tall apartments in ireland it would solve the hosuing crisis

[ApinderSingh-bc]

Irish governments must take responsibility everything completely different its shocking

[robertomeara]

Pure failure of Irish government bad policy making.

[blacknass]

yes wat a coinsidenz ! :( and did you se watch the fotage of the tousend palestins wurounding 2 foodtrucks ! :( it is insane how evil we all ar ! how can we sit eat have fun if ter ar humans wo suffering soo hard !

[irish-thinker]

And I left my house empty and live in australia, cos f them