Who said anything about people not born in Ireland
They’re waltzing in here never worked a day in their life and a house is handed to them. It’s happening all over.
Spot on mate. No one has a problem helping genuine people, the problem is most of them don’t give a fuck but they get their free house anyway and the bleeding hearts want us to pay for it.
Even though you are a cunt,Ill agree with you 100%.
A cousin of mine is renting a semi D to the tune of 1200 a month.
The other side of the house is a council effort that has a Polish family in it.2+2
She works about 15 hours a week,He does nothing but fuck around in the garden and shouting “Curva” when he has a few ales.They are driving a 2017 Peugeot or Renault SUV.
Some set up when you see Irish people being forced out of their country because they cant get anywhere to live.
And call me right wing all the fuck ye want lads-Thats not right in anyones language.
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The craw thumpers as my folks call them.
That’s a nasty post.
You really are as dumb as a post aren’t you?
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Maybe but youre a Grade A cunt and thats for sure.
A right bad one.
This is quite the unexpected reactionary turn…
The way things have gone with housing, I think I’ll hold off on the third house for another while.
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I see a couple of new builds i pass regularly seem to have come to a standstill since the start of the summer. I’m assumimg it’s due to cost increases.
Materials are on the fall price wise but concrete is in for a serious hike in price again
Really? Is the price of concrete not set?
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Set by the quarry
It’s in the mix
The rush of private landlords to the exit is about to start
Sinn Féin’s housing policy is a step backwards
Michael McDowell: It would be a return to 1946 Rent Restrictions Acts which slowly expropriated landlords
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and party members at a press conference in Dublin in 2020. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Clarity is beginning to emerge about what Sinn Féin wants to do even if there is little transparency about who really runs the party.
The party has focused on housing policy, we are told. But the small print on its plans is only becoming decipherable now.
If they get into power after the next election they intend to give all tenants who have been in a residential tenancy for more than six months the right to remain permanently in possession and to end the right of landlords to recover possession except in the case of a proposed redevelopment of the property, for which planning permission has been granted.
In particular, Sinn Féin propose to prohibit any landlord from terminating a residential tenancy for the purpose of allowing his or her family member to occupy the dwelling.
There is no reason to doubt the intention of single and small landlords of domestic property to sell up and leave the rental market in droves
Moreover, if a landlord wants to realise the value of a dwelling, they will be obliged to sell it only to a purchaser who inherits the tenant or tenants who live there at the time of sale. Ending a tenancy with a view to selling the property with vacant possession will be prohibited.
This means that if you own a property which is let as a dwelling for more than six months, it will not be possible to recover possession to, say, permit a child or other family member to live there either while a student or permanently.
If you buy, inherit, or come into possession of a house or apartment where two households merge, say, on marriage, and let it for more than six months to a tenant, Sinn Féin will give your tenant, and your tenant’s family, the right to remain there permanently as tenants.
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A rational owner of a home would have to explore any other option rather than return to the position of landlords under the 1946 Rent Restrictions Acts which slowly expropriated landlords by denying them fair market rents and any right to ever recover possession.
In these circumstances, there is no reason to doubt the intention of single and small landlords of domestic property to sell up and leave the rental market in droves. By clearly stating their intentions, Sinn Féin have in effect served notice to quit on private landlords as far as the private rental market is concerned.
The party proposes a referendum to insert into the Constitution a right to housing for all. Quite what that means is not clear. Presumably it will apply to all adults, whether citizens or not.
If (as I assume) their proposed amendment does not create a personal right for such adults to apply to the courts for orders directing the State or local authorities to provide them with homes, it may just provide that the courts can make declaratory orders of a general nature where the State or local authorities are failing to comply with their obligations under the existing Housing Acts.
As I pointed out here recently, there is nothing in the Constitution which prevents the State from acquiring land needed for housing (social, affordable and/or privately owned) whether it is greenfield or brownfield or already built.
Sinn Féin proposes that Ireland should become the only country in the EU to end all homeowners’ or renting occupiers’ liability to pay towards the cost of local government
Any compulsory purchase of property (CPO) carries with it a potential liability for capital gains tax (currently 33 per cent) on any gain realised. And there is nothing in the Constitution which prevents “carrot and stick” taxes and levies on undeveloped zoned lands or underused or derelict property in urban areas aimed at mobilising such resources in the interests of the common good.
Sinn Féin also promises the abolition of local property taxes (LPT). Instead of reforming LPT to make it fairer as between owners of very modest houses and apartments in cities as compared with owners of mansions and large homes in the countryside, Sinn Féin proposes that Ireland should become the only country in the EU to end all homeowners’ or renting occupiers’ liability to pay towards the cost of local government.
We had all of these counterproductive property policy disasters before — in the form of the Rent Restrictions Acts and the disastrous 1977 Fianna Fáil election manifesto’s total abolition of local government rates.
Unlike some commentators, I do not assume that the next government will be a coalition dominated by Sinn Féin. Nor do I believe that we are condemned to the alternative of re-electing the current hapless coalition.
But there are plenty of others out there who have failed to consider the proposition that Sinn Féin’s policies will worsen rather than cure our housing crisis.
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96 homes refused planning in Waterford with glee from a local counsellor. objectors from a neighbouring estate in Hillview. The Carrickpherish road is like a link road that goes around the back to entrances to industrial estates. Lots of green areas around there still and the city is expanding outwards into those areas.
anyone want to guess who is the chairman of the Hillview residents association?
NIMBY
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That tweet takes one aspect out of context and attributes huge weight to it. Most of those homes are probably only just out of negative equity, the banks haven’t wanted to repossess homes for about ten years.