we outlawed bedsits and flats driving people into renting above what they could afford to get a roof over there heads,As a layman it seems the whole housing system was more straightforward years ago. Developers sold 100% to private buyers, the majority to owner occupiers and some to buy to let investors. Councils built homes for people who couldn't afford to buy from private developers.
People traded-up so releasing smaller or less expensive properties for FTB. Council tenants had a right to buy when their circumstances improved so releasing them from a lifetime of paying rent and councils from the maintenance costs.
There was plenty of places to rent privately at reasonable cost as well as higher spec for those with bigger budgets.
Where did it all go wrong?
Is it because councils stopped building and that caused a domino effect?
I suspect that this is the biggest issue.The returns on cash are so low that investors are buying property and pushing the price up.
Also because people coming out of slum housing were delighted by any improvement to their conditions, the council houses could be quite basic and functional and still be a million times better than what they had before.For most of the history of the state governments' main challenge was replacing existing slum housing with new council housing but not dealing with rapid population growth.
Dublin City Council got out of providing houses not really because of the cost of building, but the cost of maintenance, dealing with tenants.Also because people coming out of slum housing were delighted by any improvement to their conditions, the council houses could be quite basic and functional and still be a million times better than what they had before.
Now the standards are so high that they take so long to build surely some of the standards could be lowered a bit to facilitate more rapid construction, I don't mean corners cut in building standards but that the houses should be more basic like the traditional council house, simple kitchen, bathroom etc with simpler designs for rapid construction
That doesn't make sense, if it is a higher spec house there are more expensive things to go wrong, it's more complicated to repair, if you have simple kitchens and bathrooms there are less things to go wrong and most plumbers and electricians can fix them.They are now looking for higher spec houses so they will have lower maintenance costs in future, which is all very well for the long term, but not when there's supposed to be a 'housing crisis'
higher spec in terms of insulation and heat retention.That doesn't make sense, if it is a higher spec house there are more expensive things to go wrong, it's more complicated to repair, if you have simple kitchens and bathrooms there are less things to go wrong and most plumbers and electricians can fix them.
Higher build specs mean there is less to go wrong.That doesn't make sense, if it is a higher spec house there are more expensive things to go wrong, it's more complicated to repair, if you have simple kitchens and bathrooms there are less things to go wrong and most plumbers and electricians can fix them.
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