@2Otoole4School@KitchenSceptic@Independent_ie Your prerogative Ross. I’m not going to try to persuade you to believe something you don’t want to but regardless the point remains that single people not only need but deserve housing options and single occupancy apartments are the most obvious and feasible solution
@2Otoole4School@KitchenSceptic@Independent_ie My guess is the mid 1970s as she’s in her 70s now. Banks didn’t look any less favourably on single applicants so long as they had a secure job and one income was enough to buy a house. There is no reason why single people shouldn’t be able to afford to buy or rent a 1bed today
@2Otoole4School@KitchenSceptic@Independent_ie My aunt bought her first home by herself at 23!
You said at no time in history was it possible for single people to have a home of their own but contradicted yourself by agreeing that one income bought a v comfortable home until fairly recently.
@2Otoole4School@KitchenSceptic@Independent_ie That’s not true. Of my parents generation, most afforded a house on one income whether married or single. Boarding houses and bedsits were very much temporary. Once single professional men and women reached their 30s, they could get their own homes.
@2Otoole4School@KitchenSceptic@Independent_ie But there need to be housing options for people who aren’t in relationships. What happens when people separate or are widowed? Having your own front door shouldn’t be a luxury. We know that there are people stuck in unhealthy/ dangerous relationships because they’ve nowhere to go
@2Otoole4School@KitchenSceptic@Independent_ie Why can’t 1 beds be feasible? It’s much more feasible than people rattling around 4 bed homes they can’t maintain on their own in older years.
@SociologenHD All the water wasted generating this chat gpt slop. If you want to know why Irish people find what’s happening in Gaza so impossible to turn away from, then read some Irish history or even better listen to some Irish people try to explain it you in real human words
@__jack_ryan@LeftistDad Maybe they could stand for election and not try to bypass democratic processes by sheer force of the money behind them. I’m not a PBP supporter or member but they’ve some sort of mandate and public accountability.
@simon_schama Equating all Jews with Zionism is a major problem. There are plenty of Jewish people just as appalled by what’s being done in the name of Israel as anyone and plenty of non Jews rallying behind Zionism for their own ends.
So for the last two years, Fatima Gunning was busy writing pieces telling us to be wary of immigrants while she was silent about her workmate John McGuirk groping her.
@LeinsterGoy@RuaidhriOC No idea. They’re renting properties out for extortionate amounts but not sure landlordism is the most appropriate or sustainable form of financial management they should be engaging in.
@TacticALmover@POLITICOEurope The only positive thing I’ve ever heard about him is that he was one of the very few wealthy people in Kilkenny who didn’t give DJ Carey a penny but that was cos he was too bloody mean.
@LeinsterGoy@RuaidhriOC Whatever about Havelock Square, the IRFU now has a property portfolio of almost 30 houses including some in Clonsilla. Most have been bought in very recent years at peak of housing crisis.