Dr Rory Hearne explains Ireland's housing crisis, and how to fix it

How tk fix it? Just deport to their countries !

Stop vilifying small investors. The governments lack of housing is the root cause

As if they really give a crap😡

Where does the government get money for social houses?

How would a country with no limit on immigration pay for these houses if there was a right to housing - there has been a billion spent on asylum seekers as the country is overwhelmed with young single males claiming international protection because of the rights of asylum seekers to housing. There were over forty males kicked out of Citywest for serious anti-social behaviour, the government had to get them out during a fire drill to avoid public scenes of having to drag them out.

Also use it or loose it. These investets are blood suckers. Get rid cumpulsary buy back property from investers

Definitely not by attacking vulnerable foreigners thou 😢

oh please, let's all ignore the elephant in the room: unvetted and uncontrolled mass migration

You want to stop property rights

Vienna started providing housing 100 years ago, & these are mostly apartments, Unfortumately most Irish people don't want a small apartment they want a detached or semi detached house.

Isn’t govt confiscating private property now? I sure hope you folks haven’t been fooled into disarming yourselves, leaving your kids defenseless against the crooks/govt

Not by tearing up the countryside anyway ; thats not the solution , we need farmland not concrete jungles

Around 80% of td's are landlords. To feed the gravey train they are importing 10s of thousands of young Muslim men who are unvetted into the county. Something very sinister is going on.

There is just one thing can reduce the price of house and rent: build more houses.

If you put more caps and 2years without pay to eviction, we will have half of new houses than today

Make it easier to get planning permission, allow land owner to give building sites to their children/relatives to builds their own house, scrap the payment to the council for the privilege of building a new house and give people a payment for all standard sized family homes that are built by young couples like it was in the past. Provide low interest loans to help the process, stop financialing homes, all this would help.
It appears everything is against young couples trying to own their own home.

The great Charles Stewart Parnell would be rolling in his grave.

You seem more rational than your govt. people need to be in charge of their countries. Govt everywhere are corrupt and squeezing everyone from interest rates and inflation

The State always makes things worse...

Dr Rory Hearne is a traitor.

Allow people to build their own hoses. Not for profit is blasphemy for Ireland's rulers. 2 beds terace house costs now €2500. I earn €2600 after tax. So I am out. No chance for a motgage either, as I am single 52 years old. Street, here I come. To build the house cost €30k to gets water, electricity connected, plans and planning permision.

Change the law, change the policies.. the government wrote the laws and this government or a more realistic government can change the laws! It’s not complicated.

We are living in the twilight of capitalism, and the quality of life is in a downward spiral which won't be reversed because it pays the influential few very well.

The housing problem is in the European Union, that should bring in rent controls and tendency laws

Thank you Rory.

In Holland if u live in a house/Apt for more than a year and it gets sold to a person or company that intends on renting it out then by law they must keep you on as a tenant. And if they want to do renovations then they must pay for a hotel for you while it is going on.
Why don't we have that here? Never herd the government even bring that up

2 years on and the government has still done nothing to address this issue

This chap is an absolute bluff merchant.

Per the government this does and doesn’t exist

2 years later and still not fixed, even more damaged 2024

In decades past, social housing was built in IRL by county councils for low income ppl. Middle class ppl could buy their own home. Nowadays, that doesn't happen, and the private market has no interest in building social housing.

Im watching this video inn2024, and the situation seems even worse.

Thenroot cause seems to be , existing homeowners resistance to new builds to protect their values. Ppl are terrified of a repeat of 2008 and negative equity.

Bold moves needed to solve this, else political extremists will gwt stronger. It shouldn't take the threat of violence for government to donthe rigjt thing.

Are there any cities in the world that has managed to eliminate housing insecurity through banning development, capping rent, and banning evictions? Vienna still has a homeless population of something like 19,000. The only major cities in the world that have managed to eliminate homelessness that I know if have been Helsinki and Tokyo, and while there are complex reasons why these two places have succeeded where others have failed, neither place made it illegal to build more homes like you are proposing.

I cannot fathom this guys position on real estate development.
THE PROBLEM is there are not enough homes.
If someone wants to build homes, that is making the problem better, not worse.
Of course private market development is not sufficient, but it IS NECESSARY.
Anyone who says we need to be ADDING restrictions on real estate development is literally not thinking this through.

His solutions are just more of the socialist policies that caused the housing crisis!

ISAs would solve a lot of the wealth-generating 'opportunities' of being an accidental landlord...

The Irish governments will fix the house crisis but it will take times now nothing going to happened over nite every body have to wait with passion there nothing nobody can do it its crazy and drive every body mad native Irish people deserve better in there own country thanks so much for the information jhikkey alla Apinder Singh

Jobs is easy place to sleep most difficult for every body its too expensive

More convinced on getting that medical cert and running as fast as possible to Australia like all my other friends have

Stop taken in people.

3 years later and it's worse

Posted here as usual buried or censored

Our education system does not produce enough carpenters/blocklayers/plumbers etc. There is often a parental snobbery towards this type of work. A change in mindset and a more holistic attitude to training people is required.
Young people unsuited to third level education should be encouraged to work in construction. The housing market will stabilize when there are sufficient personnel capable of building a house.

that accent is all I need to know, of course Rory does not mention the elephant in the room

Ireland does not have house enough, it is not about social house, but any type of house.
When was the last time you have seen an apartments building being built? Apart from Dublin… you won’t see any.

Affordable house is obviously part of the solution but cannot be the only solution.

Freezing rent does not solve the problem either… populism had not worked in different counties and won’t work in Ireland too.

Ireland needs to create a healthy environment for new houses to be built and that should be only available for first time homeowners.
There is a scheme going on at the moment, however it is not enough. The demand is way higher and while the regulation is not eased for new houses to be built… nothing will change

And still you vote for these parties and politicians that support these policies.

The fact Rory Hearne is a communist says all you need to know about Joe…

Three years on, and it's only gotten worse.
This is ideological.
Our leaders hate poor people.

This guy is a radical leftist, a Marxist who believes that Ireland should have no borders and that private property should be abolished. Do not give him your vote. He has dangerous views.

The irish government are the landlords.

3 years layer