I’m pretty sure they copied the British planning system right? If so that’s no wonder.
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> There are various estimates of the number of vacant and derelict properties across Ireland. All are in the tens of thousands. The 2022 census recorded well over 100,000: long-abandoned rural cottages; empty apartments in city-center blocks or above shuttered shops in regional towns; fading Georgian townhouses in the center of once-prospering rural villages; and “ghost estates,” housing developments that were being built at the time of the financial crash in 2008 and were never completed.
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> The housing crisis is often presented as rooted in a lack of supply. Over coffee prepared on a camping stove, the young squatters told me they see it differently. **“There’s hundreds of thousands of vacant and derelict houses,” Mr. Sheehan said. “It’s not a crisis of supply, it’s a crisis of landlordism — in a sense a crisis of speculation — and the commodification of housing.”**
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For anyone curious the Economist made an index of the affordability of renting a studio apartment in different European cities, adjusted for the average salary in those cities. Although most European cities have housing issue, Dublin was among the top for unaffordability. Even worse than London.
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You could make this article about any country in the West. It’s quicker to list the countries in the West in which housing is not broken.
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I’m pretty sure they copied the British planning system right? If so that’s no wonder.
> There are various estimates of the number of vacant and derelict properties across Ireland. All are in the tens of thousands. The 2022 census recorded well over 100,000: long-abandoned rural cottages; empty apartments in city-center blocks or above shuttered shops in regional towns; fading Georgian townhouses in the center of once-prospering rural villages; and “ghost estates,” housing developments that were being built at the time of the financial crash in 2008 and were never completed.
> …
> The housing crisis is often presented as rooted in a lack of supply. Over coffee prepared on a camping stove, the young squatters told me they see it differently. **“There’s hundreds of thousands of vacant and derelict houses,” Mr. Sheehan said. “It’s not a crisis of supply, it’s a crisis of landlordism — in a sense a crisis of speculation — and the commodification of housing.”**
For anyone curious the Economist made an index of the affordability of renting a studio apartment in different European cities, adjusted for the average salary in those cities. Although most European cities have housing issue, Dublin was among the top for unaffordability. Even worse than London.
You could make this article about any country in the West. It’s quicker to list the countries in the West in which housing is not broken.