Brendan Burgess
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I was astonished when I saw this headline in today's Irish Times.
Lorcan Sirr: There are more than 18,000 houses to rent on Airbnb vs 2,000 on Daft. Something is very wrong
It is not acceptable to have tourists living in houses while 13,300 people live in hotel bedroomswww.irishtimes.com
But it's a false comparison.
An airbnb property will be almost permanently advertised as they take short term bookings.
Whereas a landlord advertises a property for rent probably only once every 5 years?
In fact, landlords now probably don't need to advertise as they can find a tenant very easily through a letting agency or personal contact.
Brendan
Why does the IT and RTE always take the number or rental advertised on Daft as the total available nationally?
Yea, but it's not an accurate measure so they shouldn't construct sensationalist articles using such data.It is probably the only measure?
"You can kinda join the dots to match your own agenda"
Lorcan Sirr delivers housing presentation to Social Democrats conference '22
TU Dublin housing lecturer Lorcan Sirr delivers a presentation on the state of housing in Ireland to the Social Democrats national conference 2022.Sirr outli...www.youtube.com
Implies that 18,000 homes are off the market due to greedy landlords.
It's important that experts presenting moral judgements, "It is not acceptable to have tourists living in houses while 13,300 people live in hotel bedrooms" also acknowledge that those judgements are framed and coloured by their own political and social biases. If they are merely presenting data that's an entirely different thing.I have made a presentations on mortgage arrears to Sinn Féin TDs and advisors. Does that make me a Shinner?
I have also presented to a group of FG and Labour TDs.
It's important to present expert evidence to all sides.
Brendan
From what I've read of his, and I do read his stuff, he advocates for a larger and larger amount of State provision of housing with the State building directly.I agree in principle, but it's worth going through the article and deciding what you agree with and what you don't agree with.
I have made the mistake in the past "David McWilliams is suggesting it so it must be wrong". It's important to guard against that.
I don't think Lorcan Sirr is far left. And he is a property economist.
Brendan
From what I've read of his, and I do read his stuff, he advocates for a larger and larger amount of State provision of housing with the State building directly.
The same thing really?Yes, but he has also pointed out that the state is building very little and that it is buying up private housing.
Why are people renting out their properties to the highest bidder greedy but people selling their properties to the highest bidder aren't greedy?Airbnb gets a bad wrap.....there have always been short term lets available in Ireland and it is a legitimate part of a functioning housing market. I doubt if those 18,000 homes became long term lets that it would suddenly solve the housing crisis.
The simple solution is to increase supply of homes available to meet demand.
The article insinuates that landlords are motivated to do short term lets because it is less regulated, this is a big assumption to make. I don't agree with it and I am not a landlord.
There is one in Dingle but I take your pointBeing a landlord is about as different from short-term letting as running a DIY shop and running a restaurant.
Both short-term letting and landlording use houses and apartments but are very different businesses. Very few people do both or use the same property for both.
The article insinuates that landlords are motivated to do short term lets because it is less regulated, this is a big assumption to make. I don't agree with it and I am not a landlord.
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