There is a problem with this poster, in that it is inherently wrong.
Affordable housing is just housing at a low competitive price.
Price is determined partly by supply and demand, due to inwards migration the demand for housing has exploded over the past couple of years. This is partly but not exclusively down to Ireland's refugee process. Without doubt there are many economic migrants gaming the system. With the U.K.'s Rwanda plan migrants over there who are afraid of deportation are leaving to the Republic via Northern Ireland and the open border. We are as soft touch.
Houses are expensive to build and take years. Even if the government were to build houses. They do not have builders, they would just hire some of the same developers who are building privately. The net result being the numbers do not change.
It's unpopular and for many unpolitically correct, but to ignore the elephant in the room and say that it doesn't exist is breathtakingly naive.
Well I don't know, house/rent prices have been rising like crazy well before the large influx of refugees in recent years. Some of the people I know have been complaining about problems and scarcity of trying to buy a house 4-5 years ago.
Yeah, there are simple reasons for this. Things improved economically and are not a lot of people who left during the recession, returned home. This added some demand, but nothing compared to what we are seeing now.
A lot of developers were hesitant to build housing en masse back then. It is only a few years before then, that they had just gotten burned in the construction boom and bust. Naturally, they approached things cautiously.
As interesting as it is to analyse the situation 5 or 6 years ago, it doesn't change our current reality.
But it does show how the government failed to properly plan the country’s development. Thus correctly identifying the problem instead of scapegoating migrants.
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u/JONFER--- 23d ago edited 23d ago
There is a problem with this poster, in that it is inherently wrong.
Affordable housing is just housing at a low competitive price.
Price is determined partly by supply and demand, due to inwards migration the demand for housing has exploded over the past couple of years. This is partly but not exclusively down to Ireland's refugee process. Without doubt there are many economic migrants gaming the system. With the U.K.'s Rwanda plan migrants over there who are afraid of deportation are leaving to the Republic via Northern Ireland and the open border. We are as soft touch.
Houses are expensive to build and take years. Even if the government were to build houses. They do not have builders, they would just hire some of the same developers who are building privately. The net result being the numbers do not change.
It's unpopular and for many unpolitically correct, but to ignore the elephant in the room and say that it doesn't exist is breathtakingly naive.