Do the county/municipal executives have anything like housing goals that they have to meet? I know that in California the state is setting goals for new housing units that cities have to meet to retain control of their zoning regulation. Perhaps Ireland can do it the other way around where the chief executive gets the sack if they don't meet housing goals and the town council gets control of planning permissions.

I’d argue that all politics in Ireland is local. If you want something done locally you need to contact councillors and TDs. It results arguably in national issues failing to be tackled. It also results in a complete lack of jointed up thinking and development. I’d also argue that there are way too many local authorities, it needs to be more regional.

The bedsit ban was well intended but resulted in thousands of people being made homeless. It didn’t take into account affordability either, which has resulted in thousands living in hotel rooms, shelters or on the streets. It should have only ever been for new conversions/builds.

From watching your videos, you seem to think government is ineffective and lacks the right incentives. Yet, your solutions seem to rely on government intervention? What are your thoughts on moving away from government intervention and creating a freer market so people can solve these problems in a decentralised way? Essentially, watching your videos I agree with your synopsis of the problem but think your solutions are far to optimistic, the government is not incentivized to do what is best for the people.

You forgot RTE.

The NHS is being purposefully underfunded to make it look shabby so it can be privatized. Don't you recall your PM standing beside Trump while he threatened to feed your NHS to our greedy health insurance corporations??

Firstly love this channel. Secondly I agree with a ban on studios as the logic is sound the standard of some of them were horrendous and it I believe is the correct decision Co living on the other hand I agreed with however there was an arguement that they drive up the cost of property as they were more profitable and impacted the development of apartments. You failed to mention this in your assessment Finally you barely touched on the main issue and that is the Insanely huge increase in the population. Recently the EU estimated it could have been as high as 3.5 percent in 2023 making it one if the highest ever population increases recorded anywhere. This is the main issue and not a ban on bed sits. Although repeat I agree with co living and many forms of accommodation need to be provided for with the enhanced conditions on their construction provided.

A really interesting video! Seeing how terrible the Irish housing situation is makes living in London's market _slightly_ more palatable lmao, I'm moving into a co-living space tomorrow

The IEA is a right wing free market think tank, who doesnt disclose who funds it. To use a member of this organisation as an expert for this video is not a good idea. Germans spend almost double on healthcare per person yet have a lower life expectancy than the UK. The problem is funding!

People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.

This isn't an Ireland-specific problem, it's a neoliberalism problem.

The quality of the videos on this channel versus its viewing numbers is off the charts. Another great video, thanks.

I think this video makes a false assumption that without the ban more units would be built. Infact if the square footage requirements for co-living spaces were more extrenous than for apartments, the opposite would be true as there would be less beds delivered on any given site. I also don't understand how only the minister could know the answer to the second two points, this kinda seems like a cop out. We would need to avoid a scenario where we over deliver on this type of development. It is probably not a living situation most people would grow into long term, so is more akin to a plaster than a cure.

Grma for the videos lads! I emigrated a few years ago to a city where rent is also high but housing laws less regulated. Lived in a bedsit (decent size, ~15 sqm) in an old townhouse for a year, room would have orginally been a living room or large bedroom. The bathroom was outside the room and shared with the guy living in the room across from me. Most importantly for me at the time (24-25 yrs old), it was cheap-ish and smack-bang in the middle of the city. Overall, for that period of my life, I really enjoyed my time there. Completely unsuitable however for my current life circumstances.

*Amazing video, you work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K into trading from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires*

sigh A libertarian channe lwould say the NHS is bad.

Bedsit in the past from cubbyhole room to room. 2:53 'people' should that not be single people?

Great video , I grew up in a bedsit with my ma and da in early 90s beside big tree pub on Dorset St, we had our own house we had our own bathroom, and it's was a stepping stone for us , it's funny how the people making the rules probably never lived in a bedsit

Irish chattering classes: "What can be causing Irelands housing crisis and why it definitely isn't the tens of thousands of foreigners flooding into the country"

Thanks!

I’d love to move into a Danish Style Co-Housing situation with private kitchen/bathroom/living room along with shared communal spaces for meals, bike sharing, community garden, green energy etc etc. Solves housing, climate & loneliness crises all in one. Will the Irish public or politicians wake up to the idea? Probably not. Guess we’ll be dying alone in substandard living conditions then 🙄🤦‍♂️

The Government needs to stop means testing for Social Housing.

I suspect one of the reasons why these are unpopular is that people on the social housing list are afraid that the government will start providing them with this when applicable, instead of bigger houses like others before them have got so far. Like you said, we are already renting in coliving spaces unofficially, but people are scared of purpose built ones.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with bedsits, for people at a certain time in their life. Obviously if you've got already small rooms further divided with barely a sheet of plasterboard between them, you're going to have problems. Housing OAP's with potentially rowdy students or young single people is not likely to end well. (Of course , sometimes you find it's the OAP's who are the drunken yobs!) Not having a second W.C. _seperate_ from the bath/shower~room is asking for trouble, as are prehistoric hot~water systems (and that's just for the shower, I never once lived in a place that had hot water in the bedsit itself. One place I lived in didn't even have 'modern' rectangular~pin electrical sockets! Another place had an electric meter that still ran on 50p. coins, _well_ into the noughties - provided by the landlord, when he could be a7sed!) And of course one hopes that your landlord isn't _two_ of the usual default landlord types that predominate in this sector - tightwad _and_ psychopath - rolled into one! Seriously though, notwithstanding the above, and as long as the landlord isn't profiteering over and above the norm, bedsits, and (koff!) 'chalets' aren't a bad option (I use the term 'option' advisedly!) I mean, they _do_ address a need. For people who've moved out of home, but maybe are in the happy situation of being able to drop back for a decent meal and to get their washing done, the odd weekend, and where they can park some of their stuff, they can be ideal. They may, indeed, represent the means of them moving out of home in the first place!

Co-living was ok. It suits a lot of young people. It’s common across the West. It was a political football. The opposition did as much damage to young people over this as the Government did.

landlord puff piece. co-living is not the answer to a housing crisis. building more social housing, streamline planning, build upwards, all better solutions.

Ireland is full. We cannot house the world..

FFGP only know how to make a problem bigger.

Just look at the Irish government now they making it worse getting worse because of illegal migration making it a lot worse

Those who pine for the days of the bedsit never lived in one. Their only experience might’ve been at a student party when they were langered. My memory of bedsits is a bit different, having lived in a few over the years. There’s not only the fact that your bed was basically the sofa and the dinner table; there was also the small matter of a toilet you feared to enter because the landlord hadn’t cleaned it since 1963 and a shower you could catch leprocy from. It like having nostalgia for the hovels of the 1800s because sure didn’t the mould make people tough and you were poor but you were happy! There are other better solutions to the property crisis. Falling back on bedsits is an admission that Ireland lacks the will or the interest in solving the crisis beyond quick fix gimmicks.

the problem in Ireland is the standard of housing that's being rented can be very very poor. If that is being rented by a single house landlord then they are subject to income tax n their earnings from the rent. So said shoebox going for €1300 means that over €650 could be going to the government if the landlord has another job. Coupled with the rent pressure zones inhibiting rent increases why would a single person landlord put money into the upkeep of a property?

And the relentless immigration policy our gov has further compounds the effects of the internal lack of housing issues we have by further increasing demand, therefore making landlords even richer. WTF is actually going on?

Luckily, my spouse and I were able to pay off our mortgage early. We took the money we were spending to accelerate our mortgage repayment and invested it right away while we were both still working. We were able to retire early after accumulating what would have been our home payment for over 7 years and maxing out our 401K/403B plans. Thankfully, both of our parents taught in us the importance of living within our means.

Great video! 🫡

Bedsit is another word for studio apt. They're OK.. Ban the dystopian house share model. It's totally inhumane to live in a box room with strangers

Left Ireland last year. Couldn't have made a better decision. We moved to the Netherlands (which also has a housing crisis!) and finding a place here was like playing on easy mode compared to Ireland. You can't ban your way to fixing a housing shortage.

Excellent video! Fair play

I am sharing since 2017. It's not the best really. I hate this accommodation but this is what I have for now.

All those politicians have added to homelessness. Paying tax free rent for Ukrainians is creating homelessness among Irish citizens.

I would love to see you make a video analysing Ireland's gerymandered political system

This channel is BS, smelling it for awhile. The moment the 'government limits choice' arguement was brought up, all I hear is libertarian shill argruement. The 'private' landowners have as much choice over how you live by land banking, quality of housing stock, making supply scarce and inflating prices off the backs of more efficant markets driving productivity. What's the solution, a variety and debatable, but making video essay saying, suck it, live in the most-anti-social forms of shared accomodation , it choice , is normalising the low quality of life expectancy and adds to the doomish atmosphere found in irish society of 'nothing can improve'

Allowing for all types of accommodation provided the regulation and enforcement is there is fine, however there isn't enough enforcement on tenancies right now to justify immediately lifting it. I lived in a co-living place abroad for a while, its fine for a year maybe 2, but in the long run other types of housing suits better. Students and young professionals needing a year in Dublin is one thing, housing supply for long-term tenants is another. Ensuring actual apartments and social housing units are built, as well as cities and towns effectively planned to facilitate these developments is the real way to improve the housing crisis, and improving enforcement of regulations to allow for such low-cost short-term accommodation is needed too, but you can't put the cart before the horse or all you'll do is create low standard expensive units.

I'm a working class man, born and bred in Dublin. Before the ban on bedsits we had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced, and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.

Maith thú, iontach mar 's an gnáth! 👍

As a former house builder/developer (and student of the rental market) I can endorse this analysis in its entirety.

Never understood the ban on co-living. Any time something is being built for young single people it's met with shrieks about it being completely unsuitable for raising a family in like every person needs a 3+ bedroom semi D with a garden and a trampoline. Why it's legal to squash 4 adults who don't know into a dilapidated 3 bedroom F rated corpo house but it's illegal to have a small private 1-bed with a shared kitchen is beyond me.

We need more high rises. More density for the same amount of land is SENSIBLE. we have the ability, why the fuck aren't they talking about this or making needed changes. Crazy

Ask yourself what sector of the Irish population owns most of the rental property. Then ask yourself where the various ministers get their advice and instructions from. Any connections?

So the Government don't build or improve the housing situation and instead of fixing it we just allow more sub standard accommodation onto the market? They won't offer enough competition to bring prices down and when bedsits are renting for €1200-€1500 it gives landlords the incentive to increase the price of one or two bed places rather than to introduce a cheaper option. The only solution is social housing that remains in Government ownership. Anyone on less than average wages should be able to get a council apartment/house and yes we do have the wealth to achieve it.

I lived in Dublin 9, Phibsboro, worked in Eircom in Clontarf, used to pay 400e for a room in a house back in 2010, the price was going up steadily to around 1000e per month and the only way to get that room would be if someone is moving out as his replacement. I moved back to Slovakia, wages here are much lower, but so are the rents. I can afford more than I used to in Dublin.