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State Must Play To Crowd On Renting Or Face The Consequences, Lorcan Sirr
State Must Play To Crowd On Renting Or Face The Consequences, Lorcan Sirr
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In 1895, the French polymath Gustave Le Bon published his seminal work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, on the behaviour and danger of crowds. For decades after, Le Bon’s theories influenced generations of politicians and their policies. Le Bon was influential at a time of rapid urbanisation, social upheaval and worker organisation. Social order was under threat and it was feared that “the masses” might break with patriarchy, social order and religion.
How Failings In Policy Making Give Us Plenty To Worry About, Lorcan Sirr
How Failings In Policy Making Give Us Plenty To Worry About, Lorcan Sirr
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Journalist Mick Clifford recently questioned the will and ability of any new government to solve the housing crisis. It’s a legitimate question as governments get caught between the needs of the electorate—more and cheaper housing—and those of the economy, and in particular the banks—higher house prices to pass European Central Bank stress tests.
That’S Enough Talking, Let’S Have A Proper Plan For Housing, Lorcan Sirr
That’S Enough Talking, Let’S Have A Proper Plan For Housing, Lorcan Sirr
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On March 31 acting environment minister Alan Kelly assembled the third housing and homeless forum in two years. It brought together housing NGOs, Nama, local authorities and bodies such as the Central Bank and Construction Industry Federation, as well as TDs from all political parties. The forum was interesting for a few reasons. First, the issues facing housing haven’t changed in the past 24 months. If anything, they’ve intensified, but the underlying problems remain the same. Second, the participant responses will have been mainly the same, too, although also intensified. So why have such an event?
My Manifesto For A Bold Housing Policy That We Can Build On, Lorcan Sirr
My Manifesto For A Bold Housing Policy That We Can Build On, Lorcan Sirr
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Current housing policy is a ragbag of policies, each with their own timelines— some more specific than others, some more realistic, some embarrassingly awful and others potentially beneficial. With a general election in the offing, therefore, I’m curious to hear what the various parties and aspirant TDs have to say about housing. Pre-election housing policies are usually poorly thought-out, often populist and frequently have no evidence to justify them. Worse, they demonstrate little understanding of the likely intended and unintended outcomes of their proposals.
Don’T Try To Inflate House Prices For The Benefit Of The Banks, Lorcan Sirr
Don’T Try To Inflate House Prices For The Benefit Of The Banks, Lorcan Sirr
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When it comes to housing, the constant comparisons with the “peak prices” of 2007 make me wonder whether we’re about to lose the plot again. Perpetual benchmarking against an irrational peak suggests those destructive prices are a target we should aim to achieve, whereas nothing could be further from the truth.