Long term is another issue.
Identify land banks suitable for housing
Figure out what is stopping developers building.
Delighted with ongoing comments;
If AAM posters can come up with viable solutions , then Government surely can.
The fly in the ointment is Ang1170 comments; I wish I had the confidence to disagree with ang1170!
One of the ironies that hasn't been mentioned is the new regulations that came into force last year on pre '63 bedsits.
6,000 tenants dependent on such accommodation, three quarters of them in Dublin.
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However, human nature being what it is, a temptation would be to apply the funds elsewhere. Any such spend would need strict control!
As for giving people 10k to do up a place!? I had no floors in my home for nearly two years. .
There was a young woman in her early 20's on TV3's Ireland AM programme this morning who was highlighting her plight and the drawbacks of having to live in a hostel with two children, aged 4 and 1 while 'waiting to be housed'.I too don't understand how some people seem to have a new baby but no father, so I often suspect we're not getting the full truth, maybe father in jail or they are lying.
Also on Joe Duffy today he was speaking to a girl who was living in a hostel for 14 months, in full time work, he didn't once ask her whey she couldn't manage to pay rent like most people working have to,
Her 3 children, whose ages range from 18 months to 5-years-old, all slept with her in the car, while a friend let her wash and clean their clothes in her house. Shortly after the story broke, several good Samaritans came to her aid and McMahon and her children have now been put up in a hotel for the next 4 weeks.
The Mail has reported today, however, that McMahon’s partner was in fact jailed for a bank robbery around a year ago, and she was forced to leave her home after she defaulted on mortgage payments.
She also told the newspaper that she refused to move in with her mother as they didn’t get along and has been quoted as saying, “I’ll sleep in the car all my life if i have to”.
Then there's cases of people who [broken link removed] in order to jump up the housing list.
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Or perhaps (as is often the case) AAM posters don't actually know enough complex issues to come up with viable solutions?If AAM posters can come up with viable solutions , then Government surely can.
I think you're right that we often don't get the full story with many of these stories pushed out through the media.I often suspect we're not getting the full truth, maybe father in jail or they are lying.
Housing is much more than a roof over a head. Community is important in creating sustainable housing environments. Taking people who have low educational qualifications away from their roots, their family, their friends, their community connections rarely creates sustainable housing.The argument about sending people to empty houses in Kerry won't work, they tried that in the UK and everybody came back to London. Personally if I were homeless in Dublin and offered a B&B I'd hightail it to a decent town where there was good transport links and reasonable rents where I could house my family in a 3 or 4 bed place on the state. With a good free school as well. No idea why people would subject themselves to 7 or more years of waiting lists. I presume that having more kids brings you up the lists so that's why people keep having children. We're the reverse like you, limiting our family to what we can afford.
Voting turnout rates are generally low in council estates, so I'm not sure that your theory holds good.In (fluffy) times Government got votes on entitlement culture . That culture will be hard to shift.
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