New rented accommodation standards

[SteH]

The greens are updating laws concerning the standard of rented accommodation. If you are living in rental accommodation, are a landlord or are considering buying to let then it is worth knowing that these laws will exist from next february.

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I think that this is a great step forward and should improve the standard of accommodation on offer to the most vulnerable. Having had 1 or 2 dodgy landlords in my time I hope that this, along with a currently saturated rental market, improves the rental standard in Ireland. I also think that there should be a facility for people to highlight offending landlords/accommodation.

 

[charliemacck]

I also think that there should be a facility for people to highlight offending landlords/accommodation.

Yet more creeping socialism and the scapegoating of the wheelers and dealers who made the Celtic Tiger.

 

[j26]

I lived in a couple of those places when I was in college. It's a good thing they're going, but on the other hand they were cheap.

 

[SteH]

Yet more creeping socialism and the scapegoating of the wheelers and dealers who made the Celtic Tiger.

Socialism is mainly about spreading the wealth and capitalism is about a few people keeping all the money to themselves. Buying and renting out a crappy bedsit with a toilet for a table is hardly the force of capitalism at its strongest, it's more like the force of greed at its strongest.

 

[charliemacck]

Socialism is mainly about spreading the wealth and capitalism is about a few people keeping all the money to themselves. Buying and renting out a crappy bedsit with a toilet for a table is hardly the force of capitalism at its strongest, it's more like the force of greed at its strongest.

Capitalism is about freedom of trade. I should be free to rent out small rooms to those who do not want to pay much. There is nothing wrong with having a toilet in the room, we had an outside toilet and it never did us any harm. If they do not want them, they do not have to rent them. Wheelers and dealers are already suffering without the sandal and lentils brigade putting their oars in.

 

[johnjoda]

The above post reminded me of Rising damp the TV series starring rigsby (Leonard Rossiter)

 

[SteH]

...There is nothing wrong with having a toilet in the room...

Yes there really, really is.

You may not care about the country that you leave behind when you die but the green party do and their supporters do also. You have a right to feel like this particular law change will impact on your right to earn a living. That's fair enough, but if you are in a very small minority of people then you have to accept the law. This law has been put in place to ensure the standard of living for the majority continually improves by removing the ability for bad housing to exist and bad landlords to exploit the people in society that are most vulnerable e.g. students, low income people, young single parents etc. This is about reducing the gap between a rich persons standard of living and a not so rich persons. That is what a society does, it takes care of its own. We've had 15 years of people doing the opposite.