Idea that local authorities can deliver housing faster than building contractors is daft ideological posturing
We need to radically alter the way in which we meet the housing needs of an expanding population. We already have a housing deficit of 300,000 dwellings.
Housing is another investment priority. We need to radically alter the way in which we meet the housing needs of an expanding population. We already have a housing deficit of 300,000 dwellings. Rents have mushroomed in real terms over the last 10 years. For renters, the conventional aim of eventually owing their own homes appears to be receding like the horizon.
The State is already capable of compulsorily purchasing lands needed to meet our national housing needs. The price of such compulsory purchase orders needs not be extortionate, prohibitive, or unfair; landowners would be subject to capital gains tax . Moreover, the value of land acquired can lawfully be discounted by reference to the social costs of servicing the lands infrastructurally.
In fairness, Sinn Féin seems to sense the absurdity of such a proposal by suggesting that this approach should be tested out on a pilot basis. Have we learned nothing from the Leinster House bicycle shelter about the capacity of State agencies to deliver value for money to the taxpayer?
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