Yeah its the building regs are a killer. The insistance of all rental properties to also have the BER rating on them make lower rated units less desirable then too.
Fees and contributions dont help either, as well as being taxed on all goods, labour and then sales and everything in between, as well as corporate tax on the company amd revenue of employees. A relaxation on some tax would.be an incentive to refurb and make use of existing builds.
New builds i wouldnt have a huge issue with, bringing existing old buildings up to A makes little sense when they can be perfectly functional at c or b without too much wasted cost
We shouldn’t let perfection be the enemy of good here lads.
Who doesn’t want them?
Generations spent their formative periods moving to Dublin in bedsits that were significantly worse than co-living spaces.
People already effectively live in them in shared semi detached houses but instead of table tennis tables and free utilities they have to pay for a garden that inevitably becomes overgrown.
Stop talking sense. Lads in their thirties and forties want to dictate how lads in their twenties should live.
Those shared living places look great for somebody moving to a new city. Far better than a room share in a house. And social interaction too.
Yeah I’d have no problem with new builds being A rated but you’d have no problems getting an apartment or older house up to a B rating which I’d consider perfectly fine.Change the windows/doors and slab the external walls and ceilings with insulated board.A new grant oil boiler and bingo job done.Trying to get an older building to an A rating is pure madness.
And you’ll have cunts on twitter complaining if you used the wrong mortar to point the brick work
Important point on all tax breaks, it is effectively moving the burden elsewhere.
Although one of my favourite ones on the much touted O Cualann scheme was they the cost of the subsidies was more than made up by people having more money to spend on other things in the economy.
Sounds like the general thesis for cutting taxes. 
Exactly. Even at that you are looking at a hefty bill. Don’t forget the solid fuel stove!
It’s expensive but it’s a lot more doable,they may as well knock all these older buildings so cause they’ll never be livable.
The twitter crew are in knots.
We need houses
But don’t knock that house
You need to renovate that house exactly as it was but make it A rated.
Why is this house still vacant. Its a DIsGraCe
We need more places to rent. Immediately. Anything will do.
But also we want spacious two beds that a single person can afford on their own.
Chambers and co. seem to miss the point that properties don’t just disappear.
The most famous journalists in Ireland house share. The market must be broken
If they learned to code in college they’d have a few houses each now.
Learning to code is so 2021 now with amount of big tech redundancies still in the pipeline. They will be house sharing soon too.
Kitchen island installation is the only recession proof career
A lot of what is set out in this article seems sensible and achievable.
The Minister for Housing must immediately issue a circular to local authorities instructing them to suspend their normal allocation rules when purchasing a rental property with a HAP or RAS tenant in situ.
The councils must be instructed to have a presumption to buy subject to cost and structural condition. Additional staff must be seconded to process these purchases speedily.
The Minister must also immediately extend the tenant-in-situ scheme to approved housing bodies for those renters not eligible for social housing.
A scheme with funding for this purpose already exists and should be made available now for housing associations to purchase individual units or multi-unit developments.
Such a major reform and expansion of the tenant-in-situ scheme would allow landlords to sell at market value while protecting the tenants from homelessness.
By utilising emergency planning and procurement powers to target vacant properties and new building technologies, a quantum of additional homes for those in emergency accommodation could be delivered during the extension.
Ultimately the solution to the ever-growing housing crisis is a massive expansion of social, affordable rental and affordable purchase delivery by the State.
State and Council deliver housing 40% more expensive than the private market.
