Well it clearly doesnt as the number of homeless actually increased during the duration of the ban
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Mary Whitehouse is in the house
Letās cut to the chase, the eviction ban is moronic. The people claiming to care about evictions now know this- it quite clearly will (and already does) impact development. The attitude seems to be let the problem get worse.
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Thereās always vulnerable people. In your ānormalā scenario thereāll be people evicted and made homeless.
This policy (along with Rent Pressure Zones) creates insiders and outsiders.
It naturally is xenophobic, ageist and inequitable- as without supply the people who lose out are people who do not own property or have contacts with people that do.
Nasty post.
The eviction ban and limit on rent increases and the prospect of a SF IRA government that would allow tenants to stay in a property indefinitely and sub-let it to new tenants a landlord has never met with no ability to increase rent means that landlords are departing the market in increasing numbers. Iād expect any private landlord will be mostly gone from the market by end of next year.
Seems to me that Ireland, like many other countries in the Anglo-sphere relied on a neo liberal approach to housing and trusting the market (landlords & subsequently investment funds) to sort out the issue for them. Like the famine of the 1840s, the market canāt be trusted with such fundamentally important things.
Decades of a massive and deliberate underinvestment in state housing obviously also affected it.
There was also the post tiger Irish snobbery of looking down their noses at public/social housing.
A perfect storm of that has left an entire generation lost in the wilderness.
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Nope, its a perfect storm of poor pokicy making starting with the bedsit ban without a backup that has led us to where we are
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The housing āmarketā is a mile from a neoliberal paradise ffs.
There was also a decision taken to sell off the social/public housing stock to tenants often at a knock down price.
That was lost to the market. Mass enrichment of social housing tenants.
I have it on good authority that the State has means to buy up huge numbers of houses for social housing and is reluctant to do it as it feels it wonāt be able to manage it / deal with social issues / non payment of rent. The State evicting a family who wonāt pay rent is political suicide
Bed sit ban was a noble effort at regulations and attempting to improve standards.
These regulations often have unintended consequences.
Yet we have claims that itās an unregulated paradise.
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Youād wonder why
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/almost-40-million-owed-dublin-25524294
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Exactly.
Could never understand why DCC never seeks attachment of earnings for arrears
Itās clear enough why they donāt.
Tis fine, we have the money tree
Lads need to be allowed live and pay no rent
Somebody else needs to work to fund it.
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Iād love a free house but Iād be worried the island wouldnāt be big enough
Rent payments should be attached to SW payments as a condition of tenancy
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They should but thereād be political outrage. A lads dole should be js to spend as he wants. 25 euro a week for rent is too much etc etc