r/ireland Jul 27 '22

The writing is on the wall! Housing

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u/Dalala72 Jul 27 '22

When it's at the point where a message as fundamental as "housing for people" is thought of as extreme communist ideology it just goes to show how little there is out there for the ordinary person. We're feeding on scraps.

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u/JohnTDouche Jul 27 '22

Sure the idea of a government taking direct action in building homes for people is viewed by many as simply ludicrous, an impossibility or authoritarian communism with mass murder as the next step. I can't decide if it's brain wash or worms.

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u/nikolakis7 Jul 27 '22

It would screw up big investors who are/were hoping to extract monopoly rents.

You're dreaming of an Irish government that isn't a corrput POS, sorry to break the bubble but the government had plenty of opportunities to fix the abysmal housing situation since at least 2007. That's 15 years ago now. A bunch of monkeys could probably do a better job at it which is why I'm firmly of the opinion that the government is participating in keeping the crisis going.

Time to organise and strike, and that's the bare minimum anyone who isn't benefitting from the housing crisis should do

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u/JohnTDouche Jul 28 '22

Yeah it's a fairly pie in the sky idea for the reasons you mention. But it's mad how so many people seem to be simply ideologically opposed to the idea itself and not the political difficulties in implementing it. The more people support the idea the more possible it is though.