If the next government wants to solve the housing crisis, then it will have to treat it as a crisis
New build modular terraced houses in the UK: if Keir Starmer was going to build at the rate that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are promising, he would have to build over four million houses. Photograph: Agency Stock
An early political flashpoint will be the Occupied Territories Bill. Whatever version of the legislation is eventually proposed to the new Dáil, I think I can say with confidence two things about it: it will not be tough enough for the opposition, and it will be several steps too far for the United States, in both its political and corporate manifestations.has already begun a determined effort against the Bill, designed to demonstrate a significant economic price for its progress.
You would think that a second-term government would be able to hit the ground running, that ministers would know their way around, and would be able to work the levers more effectively. But that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes a party that has been in government for a long time grows naturally comfortable with its surroundings. And the system becomes comfortable with them.
To get an idea of how ambitious this number is, look to the UK where the new Labour government has announced a massive programme of house building, with all sorts of muscular measures to promote building. It will force councils to produce house building plans, introduce a series of planning reforms will make it easier to get permission to build, especially on “green belt” areas around London, and so on.
Aside altogether from the money this will take – though we are constantly told that money is not the problem – the new government will have to focus on delivery, rather than targets. Administrative, bureaucratic and legal path-clearing for new housing developments will have to become a daily concern of local and national government. New ideas are needed: time-limited tax incentives could be an option to supercharge privately-funded homebuilding.
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