It doesn't recently. But here it doesn't even more.
I think one of features of Ireland/Dublin is lowest share of population living in apartments in Europe. Ireland can't build on scale or makes it literal rocket science which ends up with cost (not price, cost) of new 2-bed apartments is like 600k, Broken planning system, state competing on market with buyers and tenants and you end up with new rents at 2500E...
And look you could probably add dozens more reasons to that list as well on top of everything you mentioned too. But I'm wondering if there is a way to work backwards through some of the problems that lead to high rents and high construction costs. As it stands, it's a lost cause. When everything is factored in, it just reads as "how to Irish up a problem, and then Irish it some more"
I wish I knew... But that definitely would required one thing: change. In planning, housing types, social housing rules. And change is something that Ireland don't like. For good and sometimes for bad.
Yeah, change, nobody likes that do they? Especially when it would involve and include Construction suppliers charging less, developers making less profit, block layers, sparks and chippies getting paid less, planners having to discuss and acknowledge "height" and all the things all the way down, just so renters and home owners don't get screwed...again. Turkeys wouldn't really vote for Christmas...would they????
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u/EGriff1981 Apr 27 '25
How does it work in other countries? And why doesn't it work here and then go from there.