Department of Housing’s assessment on the of building homes confirms what industry practitioners have been saying for years
The cost of building modern houses is at a level that no longer works for people. Workers on good salaries are struggling to find homes they can afford. For several reasons, the cost of production being just one, housing has become a premium product, increasingly out of reach for many and a deeply divisive fault line through the global economy.
Northern Ireland, he said, had decided to have lower space standards, lower build quality and no VAT “so they end up with something that costs €496,000 in Dublin costing €300,000 in Belfast”.
Instead of trying to address the elevated cost of production, the Government’s answer is to help buyers pay more through various support schemes, a solution that merely keeps end prices elevated.
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