Exactly.Hi Purple
A lot of these solutions appear very appealing.
Why not spend money, employ thousands of people and build 10,000 houses?
But they never consider the side effects. These thousands of builders are not available. The architects to design the houses are not available either.
Money is not a constraint. The constraints are the planning system and the availability of workers.
Even that would not solve much of the problem because offices are different kinds of buildings with a different supply chain. It would free up labour but it's not a straight swap.You could ban the building of new offices and possibly some other stuff to free up staff for residential. But I am sure that would have other side effects.
Brendan
That I fully agree with. I think it should be illegal for the State to buy a private home and turn it into a social home. It inflates prices and prices young people out of the market.I think that the idea is that the state should build houses, rather than rent them from investors or buy privately built houses for social housing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if plenty moved from private sector. Working for the state- job security, public sector pensions, shorter working hours. This is an advantage to someThose articles are behind a paywall. Does he indicate where the workers are coming from to build the houses?
that delivery of housing was done at a massive social and economic cost. It was a key part of the policies that kept this country poor for over 40 years and condemned generations of young people to emigration.
That's what extremist ideology does to even smart and talented people.It boggles my mind that an academic employed by a university and writing in the "paper of record" can have such a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works.
That doesn't surprise me in the least. Maynooth is probably the most left wing university in the country and the Irish Times is a mouth piece for left wing populism.It boggles my mind that an academic employed by a university and writing in the "paper of record" can have such a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works.
During the first decades after independence we spent a large amount of our government's income on housing and pensions. We spent far less on education and health. For the first 40 years after independence we got poorer in real terms. Our population shrank during those decades by 200,000 despite some of the highest birth rates in Europe.Hi Purple
I had not heard this argument before. Could you expand on it?
Thanks
Brendan
Your description of him is accurate and apt. Amazing how the comrades in RTE and the Irish Pravda Times always manage to leave out the bit after Maynooth University.....Professor Rory Hearne, lecturer in housing policy in Maynooth University and former People before Profit general election candidate and avowed Trotskyite....
He's proposing a body that does both.A quick query:
Is Hearne proposing a semi-state building contractor?
Or is Hearne proposing a State-owned property developer?
That's presumably not unconnected to Hearne blocking everyone on social media who mentions his People Before Profit past.Your description of him is accurate and apt. Amazing how the comrades in RTE and the Irish Pravda Times always manage to leave out the bit after Maynooth University.....
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