Buzzing to launch a new lecture series I’ve curated with @AAIarchitecture
“Housing Solutions” explores qualitative issues in contemporary housing, showcasing intl & Irish case studies in affordable, cooperative, experimental & social housing.
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At long last
Council blitz on derelict city sites scourge as 2,000 owners are sent levy notices incl. Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick
New dedicated derelict sites teams have been established to tackle the problem by a number of LAs
#DerelictIreland
https://t.co/V8KRG9mNCr
“It's the market not the planning system that determines the rate at which stuff gets built. That's becoming more and more evident....We're just chasing our tails if we think reforming the planning system is going to solve this”
https://t.co/MLGSg4AqaY
Are you telling me that our tax money is going towards promoting the book of the former Minister for Homelessness alongside the lad who pocketed thousands via bogus self employment in RTE?
€495000 considered an 'affordable' home?
This is why we need a radical new direction in housing policy.
"houses costing up to €495,000 in the State’s most expensive “affordable purchase” housing scheme built to date"
https://t.co/VTvc1ujEjQ
The prospect of four years of a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach is a grim one because their big idea is to cynically hose money into the demand side of housing, giving themselves the appearance of patronage and largesse but inevitably inflating the market further and thereby aggravating..
Analysis: Simon Harris promised 40,000 new homes this year - that pledge is slowly unravelling
Mounting evidence now suggests housing completions will be in line with last year
https://t.co/1cHwcpFgWK
Not really that wild. There is an ideological tug of war going on in the heads of the poorer parts of the working class.
State failure and neglect has created an anger that the far right have tapped into. 1/2