"โฆ we are desperate for housing that is actually affordable for people who are working their asses off and can only make so much money because wages never keep up. What we need is we need a public developer employing public construction companies to actually build out the non-market and nonprofit and supportive and cooperative housing that will solve the problem."
NDP's Avi Lewis on the massive buildout of housing needed to solve our #HousingCrisis:
"That has only ever happened under public ownership. And that's how it happened after the Second World War. And that is what is required to solve the housing emergency."
โWHAT HOUSING CRISIS ? โ
(Photograph: ABC News: Liam Patrick)
Legend!
"Homelessness campaigner Martin Leahy has brought the curtain down on his Thursday protest outside Leinster House after 200 weeks.
The Cork musician has sung his song entitled 'Everyone should have a home' at the gates of the national parliament each Thursday lunchtime for the last four years."
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0326/1565385-dail-singer/
#HousingCrisis #Ireland #mastodaoine #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Cork #MartinLeahy #HousingForAll #Housing
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@michelin/116281438006079571
I meant to tag @europeanspodcast since I mentioned them in the blog post, and of course I forgot when I posted that after midnight (when you maintain a forked @gohugoio theme and don't blog often, you spend some time rebasing your theme once in a while...)
But if you're a #podcast listener and are interested in #Europe news and cultural discussion, I can vouch that The Europeans really helped with my family's move to #Europe - by coincidence I started listening right when they published their recent "Who Does it Best" miniseries and it started with an episode on the #HousingCrisis - makes us feel a bit better knowing it's not just #Dublin . Such warmth, convivial banter and nice range of topics you don't normally get from other media outlets!
This week's episode is special and does not follow the normal format, so you might want to check their other episodes too
๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐จ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ brokers said ๐บ๐ฎ๐ท๐ผ๐ฟ lenders were still increasing rates or pulling deals altogether!
-> With low-deposit deals favoured by ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐-๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ being hit hardest!
*Housing submarkets and the effects of new construction on existing rents*
Anyone who wants to read this who doesn't have access let me know
'We find that lower-priced rental housing close to new construction had rents 4.4% higher than those in other low-quality buildings farther away in the first 5 years after new construction. In contrast, we find that new construction had the opposite effect on higher-priced housing: rents were 1.7% lower near new construction'
#socialHousing #housingCrisis #ausPol
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2026.2628685
atomicker
Deborah Preuss, pcc ๐จ๐ฆ
Peter Riley
P Gurgel-Segrillo
Michel Lind 
Darren Fower
TinDrum
Stuff I found