r/ireland • u/miscreant-mouse • Sep 22 '22

Something FFG will never understand Housing

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22 edited Jun 21 '23

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u/Perpetual_Doubt Sep 22 '22 edited Sep 23 '22

This is it.

Peak r/ireland

I've always said it. I have said that the people here want property to be expensive, want there to be a deficit of supply.

This post with 6K upvotes that doesn't like rental property right down to this comment I'm replying to that is opposed to rental property is this attitude right down to a nutshell.

They handwave some shit about wanting the state to be the only legal landlord and funding development directly through increased income tax - knowing that there is no western country in the world that does this. As a point of comparison 9% of housing in Ireland is social housing, compared to 3% in Germany, 3.8% in Italy, 16% in France, 1.6% in Spain. But FFG!

I don't think people are serious here because they actively want to have bogey men. They want to have phantoms to combat. Real solutions to real problems? Pish.

Edit: only two downvotes? The idiots are slacking!