Those are two different things, there should be both.
Iām not sure I agree with that. Thereās lots of our legal system which punishes/fines criminals but doesnāt look to remunerate victims of those crimes.
There already is the RTB so maybe thatās a mechanism to pursue compensation if a law has been broken.
Regulating Air BnB became a prominent issue when Murphy was Housing minister. He refused for ages to introduce restrictions (ideological) but when pressure continued he introduced regulations that were a sop, completely ineffective and never intended to be effective (ideological). Theyāve been improved a little now but are neither effective nor enforced. The councils are supposed to enforce them. The parent department of the councils is the department of housing. Why have councils not been equipped with staff to enforce these regulations? Or indeed to speed up building and developing houses? Ideological?
Weāre five years on from varadkar saying we have a homelessness crisis and deep into a housing emergency, but thereās nothing to suggest government sees it as a crisis or emergency. Thereās no urgency.
Sure whatās another few thousand homeless, and wonāt it free up housing units for other people.
FG supporter doesnāt believe poor people wrongly evicted by landlord should be compensated by landlord.
Could we build a new city in Lanesborough?
We could build one in Dublin port.
Thatās quite the twist. I said I donāt think the law is the mechanism to do it and we already have an agency that awards compensation to tenants and landlords alike which could be used.
I love the narrative about the poor landlords. I know 3 people with eviction notices for selling up but the real reason is the landlord wanted to add up to 500 a month on the rent in one case and both other cases selling up was only used when tenant refused to pay increase as it was unfair
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RTB powers would come nowhere near adequately compensating people who have been wrongly evicted, certainly not in the current climate.
Yeah Iāve seen it elsewhere too. Itās a convincing idea for me.
Interesting idea, would like to hear/read a counterpoint to it. All sounds good in theory
Could Paddy deliver it?
Weād have to build a new port then.
Iām sure all this was suggested 30 years ago.
I saw a guy on Twitter this morning who has a plan to fill in Sandymount strand and that bit between Clontarf and East Wall. And build on Bull Island.
That reminded me of that spoof video from 2007 where there was a fake plan to build a new city in Dublin Bay in the shape of a shamrock.
Property prices in Longford and Roscommon are dirt cheap so we could build an Oirish Brasilia or Canberra there, except built in the style of Paris, with wide tree lined boulevards of six storey houses.
Lanesborough is one option, the area between Portumna and Banagher is another, the area around Sligo is another. It could be an Irish Cape Town without the poverty, the snakes and the sharks.
I imagine cost is the only counterpoint. It shouldnāt be too hard to build a new port. The opportunity to develop that much land in the city centre that the state already owns has incredible potential.
We would, or extend and deepen an existing one. Hardly beyond the wit of man. The difference to 30 years ago is we are coming down with money and the housing crisis.
They are already doing work, or are to do work, on the port. A lad from home is working on it. No mention of building houses.
There arenāt many candidates? Drogheda? Wicklow? Greenore?
Rosslare seems the obvious choice to me but sure youāve four there already, you only need one.
I think Ryan wrote to the head of the port asking about releasing some land for housing and yer man told Ryan to fuck off out of it.
theres punitive measures available to RTB but as usual theyre light penalties and not regularly enforced. for egregious breaches like this, forfeiture should be available as a penalty
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