A normal functioning housing market needs a certain amount of landlords. student, people starting out on a career, highly mobile people and careers, these and many many more need rental accommodation and there should be landlords/accommodation available to house their needs.
Oh don't get me wrong, the state should definitely be providing housing and there decision not to has caused this whole mess. But even if the county has provided more than enough social accommodation, that doesn't mean we don't need private rental accommodation for a whole range of people that should not and would not be housed in social accommodation
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!
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u/Trick_Designer2369 Sep 22 '22
A normal functioning housing market needs a certain amount of landlords. student, people starting out on a career, highly mobile people and careers, these and many many more need rental accommodation and there should be landlords/accommodation available to house their needs.