Entwickler stellt in letzter Minute die Hälfte der Häuser in neuer Sozialwohnungssiedlung auf Privatmarkt um

Where were the safeguards preventing this from happening?

Wild to build a full estate of social housing. Clearly nothing has been learned for how that paired with poor council enforcement for bad behavior turns out.

In other news, water is wet.

So? More homes available to buy. What is the issue here actually?

Great news for people in Carlow looking to buy their first home, who I’m sure were originally disappointed to hear the estate wouldn’t be available for them.

Surely the way to so social housing is a council or ABH, buys the land and hires a construction compnay to come in and build the houses like it always was.

So in this case the developer built the houses with the expectation that the AHB would buy the homes, the cost of building went up so the developer put them on general sale.

This is absolutely ridiculous, its time for the state to employ firms to build social housing. You can still get the mix this way too, plenty of people on decent salaries cannot afford to buy, may have missed some payments on loans during COVID and can’t get a mortgage but will pay 16% of income on rent for a social home.
Can achieve the mix the government are looking for that way.

What’s the issue? I don’t think private land should be gifted to those dependent on the state.

The state of those cheap lego houses though. there’s no way they cost or are worth 100s of 1000s. I agree with youse when you realise half those houses are going to the ‚full time mammys‘ and the ‚deadbeat daddies‘ of which the Tullow councils housing list is populated with.

A quick look around local facebook comments and it’s disheartening to know that several people who are getting these houses are being moved from other failed social housing estates in Tullow because of having more dole babies and criminal behaviour. Don’t get trapped buying one of these shitboxes knowing half that estate will be a warzone in a few weeks time.

Incidentally there is a ghost estate called Glendale in Tullow, not far from this place, that has been idle for years and has 70 houses just sitting there but no one cares… so let’s keep building more!

[https://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/council-plan-to-bulldoze-houses-halted-by-abp_arid-28268.html](https://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/council-plan-to-bulldoze-houses-halted-by-abp_arid-28268.html)

I wonder how much more comfortable, peaceful and productive the country would be, if everyone was provided a home for life based on a percentage of their monthly net income (after expenses) and therapy. Every home would be subject to a friendly inspection on a regular but not excessive basis. Every person struggling emotionally would have someone to talk to at least once a week. And there would be no homeless bar those so mentally unwell that they would be brought to a hospital and rehabilitated or placed in a safe and secure home.

The government could hire permanent teams of builders and developers, purchase or produce building materials in bulk to minimise costs, and follow similar standards nationwide, including the need for community hubs to bring neighbours together and give kids places to socialise, exercise and learn sports.

Imagine never needing to worry about rising interest rates. Or if something horrible happens you’ve a professional waiting to support you. Imagine kids teens and adults all feeling at home and safe, every day.

We wouldn’t have this neverending tug of war between social housing and private ownership.

*Residents who have been waiting for years on the council housing list expressed fury at the “absolute farce” around the handling of the handover of the units.*

Words like *waiting*, *fury* and *handover* (of brand new houses?!) is what makes all this so fundamentally wrong.

Also all this new builds should have clear statement in buying contract how many will he sold to private buyers and how many will be social. Sinking in 500k for house to realise you are the only one paying tax in your street might be rude awakening 4 years down the line

Developer clearly got pissed off waiting on CHI to close the sale

There should be a right to housing enshrined in the constitution that allows people to take the government to court for not providing enough social housing.

the new houses are beautiful but if the teens in the estate are wild and not controlled its a nightmare for residents, the problem is the parents of wild teens dont care and too many of those families and the estate turns bad in the end