How much did the boi loans dept cost the state?
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gas craic, shinner âwe need 500 social units immediatelyâ but not in my area 
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Yes. Because It would also serve to push investors to buy up more property and would swallow a large amount of tax revenue. This is not a short term crisis and our solutions should not be knee-jerk reactions which are ultimately bad policy. Weâve had plenty of that before and now the state is paying private landlords a fortune.*
Firstly - that wasnât your issue with his idea initially. Youâve changed your tune.
Secondly, investors buying property to rent at low prices isnât necessarily a problem - it may incentivise building further and particularly apartments. Ultimately supply is the issue at the moment - not who owns it.
Iâd agree with you about best use of exchequer funds. However in an earlier post you suggested landlords should be âsuper-taxedâ - considering most private landlords are on a marginal tax rate of 50% on rental income do you think this is too low. Do you realise that one of the biggest beneficiaries of rent increases is the state.
Finally, any comment on Aodhan âhelpingâ the crisis by his vociferous support of the NIMBY brigade?
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@anon61878697 disappeared from this site for the exact duration of the hurling championship. Only explanation is that heâs on the Limerick panel.
A Private developer wanted to build 500 apartments and houses on a school playing field that has never been rezoned in the affluent suburb of Clontarf. No homeless child would have been allowed look in the gates of this development. Never mind live there.
And spare me the faux concern for children sleeping in Garda Stations considering the poison you post about the same people on this and other threads.
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This will be the next thing aimed at Dublin GAA by certain âsports journalistsâ. Invoking homelessness to demand that wealthy developers are allowed build (astronomically expensive) housing on municipal GAA pitches.
Theyâve tried everything else, theyâll try this too.
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We want action. When do we want it?- Now.
Houses for free, houses for all.
nah, just bullet proof vests that their guts spill out under
I think youâll find thats not the case art.
maybe not as pronounced as some of the normal âbeatâ lads but theyre certainly not as lithe as their colleagues in other jurisdictions.
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By law at least 20% of it will have to be social and affordable
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There was a woman interviewed on Six-One yesterday who poured cold water on the whole notion of âaffordableâ housing and on this whole Fine Gael strategy.
âAffordableâ means knocking 50k off the price of a 400k property, ie. a PR-driven sham.
Are you saying 536 new homes would have had no impact on the housing crises ?
Affordable to whom?
100 new Part V homes in a housing crises.
But not in my back yard or in the words of Aidan Riordan ânot appropriate enoughâ or according to Sinn Fein "Weâre delighted thatâs whatâs going to happen to it now.â
Farmed salmon mixing with wild salmon .
Theyâd be free to those who would have gotten them
There isent enough homes in dublin to go around and the problem is getting a whole pile worse, the Oirish are going to have to overcome their irrational fear of 'private developerâs â
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Thereâs no joined up thinking.
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