As voting day looms, Róisín Shortall talks taxation, dropping the spending cap, overhauling housing and halting a creeping privatisation of basic services in a Social Democrats government.
Institutions have been spooked by the prospect of capped returns, meaning Dublin has struggled to compete with other European cities for investment. Just €440m was invested in Ireland’s build-to-rent market in 2023, compared with €1.9bn the previous year.
The pandemic years appeared to cause a blip in small landlord activity but they came back strongly in 2022, according to new data from the Revenue Commissioners.
Since 2020 in particular, the government has thrown a lot more money at the problem, in particular for social housing of various hues. It has done so while also effectively ignoring the growing deficit of rental homes around the country.
John Collison says that Ireland’s economic success was founded on radical ideas. However, in a wide-ranging and forthright interview, the co-founder of Stripe wonders if complacency has seeped into the system.
Ronan Lyons is an international expert on housing policy. Here, he argues that Sinn Féin’s policy document marks a continuation of current housing policy, rather than a radical shift.
Cairn Homes CEO Michael Stanley wants to keep growing to meet State demand for affordable and sustainable homes and give a fair return to shareholders.
In pretending to discover the unintended consequences of the residential zoned land tax on farmers, the Government has found a reason to push back its collection. The same issues were raised – and resolved – over six years ago.
Net migration is volatile in Ireland and may well rise and fall over the coming years. But what seems far less likely to change is longer-run structural changes in society, all of which point to smaller households. This needs to be central in the housing discussion, not migration.
After leaving a string of company boards in the spring of 2021 in the wake of the Davy scandal, Garry is now director of two companies engaged with housing ventures in Dublin and Cork.
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