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    Irlands wahre Wohnungskatastrophe entsteht

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    1. thenamzmonty on

      So I’m likely gonna be old and grey and paying rent to live in a closet…Lovely read for a Sunday morning…..

    2. WaterfordWaterford9 on

      Let’s hope everything collapses and we can seize shit from the super wealthy

    3. RomfordWellington on

      If only they could just build more houses.

      They also need to start telling people in their 30s just how exactly they need to get a LDA property of any sort.

    4. Wodarchy on

      aaaaaaaand no wonder why myself and everyone else my age is aiming to emigrate after college.

      Absolutely hopeless

    6. OriginalComputer5077 on

      I’ve seen this firsthand..there’s a rented house in my estate whose tenants are older, one of whom is definitely retirement age.

      It’s a truly depressing sight.

    7. NotAnotherOne2024 on

      ALONE and other age-friendly organisations have been banging this drum for over a decade now.

      For a country to efficiently operate it needs multiple types of housing tenures for the different stages of its populations lifecycle.

      Due to our late economic development we’ve been hopelessly shite at future planning all aspects of our society, especially housing.

      Specific age friendly developments have been introduced over the last number of years through both the private, aimed at down-sizers, and social, aimed at social housing applicants over 55, but the units delivered are a pittance compared to the actual demand.

      Add to that the fact that the age-friendly private developments are nearly always located in affluent areas were the purchasers have the purchasing power gained in the majority of cases from selling their larger homes, it means that the availability of age-friendly housing is further diminished to the masses who need it.

    8. elcabroMcGinty on

      FFG have nothing to offer us. I’m so sick of people saying how the _housing crisis is very hard on the young people_

      I was a young person 10 years ago. It isn’t a crisis anymore, it’s normalised 

    9. Supersix4 on

      I graduated into the recession era in 2010 and have been listening to this housing crisis headline since back then.

      A crisis that goes on this long is not a crisis it is an utter failure and down to government policy and choices.

      The only way this changes is if people threaten this government and their position.

      March on government buildings and protest. Hound local politicians. Have employers bring it to chambers of commerce use every means to put it on every agenda.

      I am around long enough to know the short tenure of our elected politicians is ideal to promise everything and deliver nothing.

      They have no accountability but they are terrified of protests and people shaking out of apathy.

      I am advocating peaceful not violent protest here via every channel we have as citizens.

    10. Chrispy006 on

      We’ve fallen so far behind on building a certain quota of properties every year over the last 15-ish years that it is impossible to „build ourselves“ out of the mess, even if we started tomorrow on double output; the problem is so far ahead of us that we can’t catch up to it anymore…

      Source: Construction worker, and you can find the reports on these figures

    11. miju-irl on

      People need to stop calling it a crisis and start calling it for what it actually is……. government policy.

    12. Particular-Irishman on

      I won’t lie when I say as someone who’s current situation could go any way, these headlines constantly are depressing. I get it’s highlighting the issues and this is needed but so are real solutions. I already wouldn’t be the biggest fan of this time of year for reasons and normally can’t wait for it to pass but contemplating the possibilities for after has me wondering which could be worse

    13. Soul_of_Miyazaki on

      Least the vast majority voted for this lot to continue dooming future generations

    14. MuhammadAkmed on

      hmmm if only someone had a surplus of cash they could front up to support construction and land acquisition.

      oh well nevermind

    15. sauvignonblanc__ on

      It’s only the housing market but the banks. My cousin cannot obtain a mortgage without a € 60,000 deposit because his girlfriend cannot only work 21 hours per week because of her medical condition.

    16. Dennisthefirst on

      Been saying this for years. It’s as plain as a developer’s nose up a politicians arse

    17. ninety6days on

      Step one : outlaw the sale of residential houses to commercial entities

      Step two: tell the vultures to fuck off and feed on some other country

      Step three: tell the middle ireland FG im alright jack crowd to shut their fucking mouths crying about the price of something they had no intention of selling anyway

    18. Mindless_Let1 on

      My mum is 69 and has had to move 3 times in the past 5 years due to renting and landlords deciding to sell, make modifications, etc etc.

      Really damaging her mental health and meaning I’m sending her over a grand after tax each month just to get by, which means I can’t save shit either

    19. CheraDukatZakalwe on

      I honestly think renting into older age is less of a problem than the collapse in birth rates associates with the precarious housing situation facing many younger people.

      A paper was recently published which in the US showed that fully half the decline in birthrates has been caused by a lack of housing. I’d say that easily translates here.

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