A substantial part of Ireland’s housing problem is economic illiteracy, dressed up as anti-landlord populism.
The more homes you build, the more migrants you need to avoid a crash.
Echoing our own Fiscal Advisory Council, The Economist concluded that “Governments are living far beyond their means.”
“The things which happen most promptly and efficiently in Ireland tend to happen inside factories operated by Americans.”
The actual way to bring down rents and increase supply is, paradoxically, to favour landlords in housing policy.
In that 10 years the finances of the Irish middle-class have been crushed and the State has expanded.
The minute a hard choice had to be made, who was the first to get the chop? Not the bureaucracy. Not the NGOs. Not the massive overspending on projects.
What’s good for you doesn’t always make you richer.
Economic “armageddon,” baseless fearmongering, or something in between?
If hotel prices in Dublin are extortionate, that is simply because a lot of people want to go to Dublin on the date in question.
Ireland collected $1.2 billion of corporate tax in July
It is not the laws of economics that govern Ireland’s housing market. That’s the whole problem.