Charlotte Malterre-Barthes calling for a global moratorium on new construction.
To paraphrase “what is being built is being built within economical logic by people that do not have the interests of the unhoused at heart.”
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“Design offices need to deploy their organising abilities to think about not building, building less and building with what exists.”
“Questioning new construction as a solution to the housing crisis is the route out of a crisis of imagination.”
Let’s unravel this misinformation from a FF councillor.
• There is no shortage of unrealised residential planning permissions - 40,000 homes w permission in Dublin alone
• Vexatious objections carry 0 weight in planning decisions & are in fact liable for legal action
• #BuildToRent is a specific (lobbied for) housing typology, defined as being aimed at short term accommodation for “young mobile workers”
• The opt outs from basic liveability standards allowed for BTR schemes renders them particularly unsuitable for Part V social housing
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May 31, 2022 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
I had a reply guy jump in my comments today defending bad housing policy - and put the onus on me to solve the housing crisis - so here goes.
2008 global crash w an added property speculation bubble (largely driven by FF policy) which bursts in Ireland.
Country goes bankrupt, land ends up in NAMA.
Under FG/ Labour gov to follow much of this land is flogged off to get it off the balance books.
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May 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
*State of play in Irish planning corruption & cronyism*
Since 2015 power over planning decisions has been stripped from local authorities & handed to An Bord Pleanála which has been stuffed w political appointees such as personal friend of @simoncoveney Paul Hyde
#HydeGate
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Recently @wereontheditch has broken a number of stories about Hyde’s cronyism such as failure to declare conflicts of interest when deciding on decisions involving his brother’s company, lands adjacent his father’s & even on his brother’s house!
Excited to talk about housing policy at Ireland’s Edge later this month.
The timing of this tweet seems appropriate considering An Bord Pleanála today published their decision to Grant Permission to Hines’ build-to-rent dystopia at Holy Cross College in Drumcondra…
I do not believe a corporation should own an entire neighbourhood, or dictate housing policy. It is not in a community’s interest for the homes of 4,000 people to be under a single landlord. It is not in the national interest for that landlord & their profits to be overseas.
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Aug 31, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
A thread about build-to-rent (btr), aparthotels & how the government has rewritten housing policy for the mythical “mobile worker”, at the behest of lobbyists, and the effects of this on housing supply…
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The Irish government’s Design Standards for New Apartments were updated in 2015 for the first time since 2007, just a few years after the vultures were invited in. The changes included the concept of “Centrally managed and operated ‘build to let’ housing for mobile workers”
