What are they going to do to fix the weather? The rain during the summers under the present government has been deplorable.They are also going to introduce a rent freeze, an eviction ban and an NCT.
The first two are temporary but will, of course, become permanent.
I think it's because half their supporters are really Labour voters but are too stupid to realise it and the other half are too racist to vote with liberal Labour supporters. Housing was the thing that united them and immigration is the thing that divides them. This is a Hail Mary play to try to get the focus back on housing and their star player, the not-nordie housing guy who dresses up as Trotsky.Let's all play pluck a figure out of thin air and say we'll spend it on housing... and while we're at it, let's take a second figure and say we'll spend that on health, and a third figure, to be spent on education.
SF are losing serious levels of support, based on a series of recent polls - and I think it's because a lot of the younger people have copped on, to their spin.
Let's all play pluck a figure out of thin air and say we'll spend it on housing... and while we're at it, let's take a second figure and say we'll spend that on health, and a third figure, to be spent on education.
The Shinners are planning on spending 7.8 billion a year on housing every year over the first 5 years they are in power, a total of 39 billion Euro. That will deliver 300,000 homes. That's €130,000 a home.
A few questions;
- How are they going to get the cost that low?
- Who are they going to get to build them?
- Where are they going to build them?
- How are they going to prevent planning objections and delays?
The private sector will build that many (175,000 over 5 years) anyway. The State funds some of them but the private sector build all of them so the Shinners are going to directly build 25,000 houses a year. The State is going to build them. The same State that spent a third of a million on a bicycle shed. The same State that is alreadty significantly more expensive than the private sector in providing housing. They are going to have more of that. Yea, that'll work...175,000 of the 300,000 houses are nothing directly to do with the State.
The SF plan is for the State to provide 125,000 houses.
So the Shinners are going to give private developers massive tax breaks. Who gets to decide who buys these cheap houses? Will they be for Good Republicans, Party Loyalists, Proper Irish People (white Irish) etc?37bn / 125,000 = 296k per house
Bear in mind that 25,000 of the 125,000 are to be sold to buyers, so the 296k figure is not an exact measure of the development cost per house.
The cost to build a house in the GDA is 461k, but that includes large amount for
(1) land costs = 70k, way too high
(2) finance costs = 23k, way too high
(3) developers margin = 54k, too high
If we wanted to, as a society, we could reduce that 146k of cost.
By removing the developers margin, and de-risking development, and by using land taxes, and cheaper finance, we should be able to knock 100k off that 146k of costs.
It will be handled by Ticketmaster, after they've been nationalised by SF.So the Shinners are going to give private developers massive tax breaks. Who gets to decide who buys these cheap houses? Will they be for Good Republicans, Party Loyalists, Proper Irish People (white Irish) etc?
Is he a Good Republican?Tom McFeely ( ex Maze Prisoner and Hunger striker and cowboy builder ) would probably be the chief advisor to the shinners if they were ever in power to oversee their housing plan
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