Young people in Ireland forced to live at home amid lack of affordable housing • FRANCE 24 English
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- In Ireland, high prices and a lack of sufficient homes mean it's difficult for many Irish people to find a place to live. Rents are soaring and first-time buyers are struggling to enter the market. Young people are particularly affected, with two thirds of under-30s forced to stay with their parents. FRANCE 24's Julien Sauvaget and Clovis Casali report from the capital Dublin and its neighbouring towns.
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Governments all over the Western world seem to have abandoned their citizens in the matters of housing, health care, and mental health and addictions. It makes me both furious and sad.
Correct. Capitalism.
@@dw309fyi capitalism thrives better with the least amount of government
@@strongbad2016 yes; thank you for illustrating my point. Capitalism is the priority for governments, not community.
@@dw309 huh? Care to elaborate?
They are abandoning their citizens to help establish the framework for the unelected elite grubs, "One World Order". I'm no conspiracy theorist, but have a look at what is happening to every democratic country! Immigration out of control, inflation out of control, housing for their citizens is scarce,non existent or overpriced. This is mostly caused by the elected lefty governments. Some countries citizens are waking up and electing right leaning governments, and things start looking up when they do. People need to start taking their countries back and get rid of this socialist push. Capitalism was the enemy of socialism, and we know what history has told us about socialism.
It still feels weird to me how pretty much all countries are going through a housing crisis at the same time.
all by design
When I visited Ireland I was surprised it was more expensive than the US.
I guess you haven't been to NYC. Inflation has caused prices to double in some cases. I used to buy evaporated milk for less than 80 cents a couple of years ago and now it's gone up to dollar fifty.
Why would a small island with the purchasing power of a small city be inexpensive? Ireland is consistently one of hte most expensive countries in Europe from insurance to electricity to groceries.
Almost everywhere on earth is more expensive than the US (unless you consider countries with extremely subpar standards of living/quality)
@@jizzaymz This is disingenuous. Costal cities in the USA are just as expensive.
It's because it's terribly run, and the people of Ireland are gluttons for punishement - in local elections, they've just handed the largest share of the vote to Fine Gael, the party that has shown the most disdain for the people of Ireland over the past decade. Irish people have collectively rewarded their abusers - those who have left them struggling to survive, and about to have their right to speak the truth seriously restricted.
Yet they won’t let us build a house on our own land……
Yep. That's the issue. We already live in tyranny.
Don't worry, the people who make those laws have had their land passes down through the generations, they are ok.
That's what is important.
U don’t even own the land !!!!
It’s a massive scam !!!
my dad bought the house we grew up since 1975 still there my brother lives there now...dad said.....if we dont pay the rates wich is 1200 a yr if we didnt pay it the council CAN AN WILL take the house i said to dad wtf the goverments worldwide are corporate criminals
Happening all over the world corporate greed.
Government agenda
What the hell is corporate greed ? If you had bought the shares of those corporates when they were smaller companies you too would be a wealthy man. Wealth is not a zero sum game. You should have bought the shares of those companies. It is a pity you lost out on wealth creating opportunities.
People voted for mass migration and now there's a shortage of housing. I don't understand
Same in australia. No wonder the birth rate is snow diving in these places.
It’s worse in Canada. Atleast the weather is better in Australia and the Australian government actually decided to reduce immigration.
Same in The Netherlands. It's sad.
@@liamthomas8029 Australia is still taking over 100,000 immigrants a month, with a 0.9% housing availability.
@@gungy9544 that is very little compared to Canada. Australia's problem is real estate developers not building homes so that they can inflate the prices as well as older generations owning more properties and not yet selling them in Australia. And tbh Australia has higher wages to actually bear this whereas Canada has lower wages, higher taxes and can you imagine being homeless in minus temperatures?
@@alystero8838we do have winter though. Not as bad as Canada but it does hit minus temperatures in Victoria and Tasmania.
Same thing in Canada.
Canada way worse than this😂😂😂
Cannotdo is a bland anaemic plate of granite with some treestumps .
Canada is just full of Indians driving up housing prices. You think prices are high in US? Look at Toronto!!!
@@The1JBanks
Toronto has little on Vancouver.
Not impossible tho, i lived on my own since I was 19. The problem is that its very hard and you cant save at all :/
All of Western Europe is facing this and now even Portugal and Spain...Investors are buying up houses with borrowed money, asylum seekers are getting the affordable houses and the natives are left empty handed.
Seems to be a problem mostly in the 'Anglosphere'? If countries like Ireland, Australia, Canada, NZ and UK want to run massive immigration programs, they should ensure the country has adequate infrastructure to handle the big increases in population in concentrated areas.
Agreed,
It’s to drive us out. Yt people only 8% of global population.
These western countries are relatively broke and funnelling in immigration to boost our economies long term. We unfortunately are in the part where it puts an enormous strain on our housing and infrastructure. We need to keep pressure on our governments to build that housing and infrastructure and remove the barriers to getting it done.
it’s 1:1 the same here in Germany
When asked for that, they will whine that their right to come IS a human right.
My country took millions. Its unable to intregrate then in a timely Manner. Taking Up housing. Making natives Mad. And Mad that they need to fear to get raped or killed Just because. Mad that they then get to Play the poor victim hard and dont even face a fitting punishment. Forcing them to Leave the country? Nope.
Thats playing the extreme right in the cards.
Where is overseas? Canada? America? The problem is even worse there
In any new development, 20% must be designated 'social and affordable'. So, 80% is unaffordable. How stupid is that policy?
but "muh free market is betterer"
80% are even more unaffordable since they have to subsidize the 20%.
If 80% were unaffordable nobody would buy them . Not the brightest candle are you .
@@sarahann530 Not nobody, that's not what social housing is for. It's for those who can't afford a house otherwise. You're not the sharpest tool in the shed yourself.
@@SK-yb7bx
Well, it is. Better unaffordable than unavailable even if you could afford to pay the higher price.
my cousin moved from Croatia to Ireland with her 4 kids. She is receiving government aid and doesn't have a husband salary (afaik she had 3 men for those 4 kids, don't ask...). Yet young native Irish families are ignored. I say this is done by purpose, not by negligence. Because the government does help immigrants! My cousin couldn't speak 10 words of English when she arrived. Who helped her, and for how long? Why does no one help the natives that much?
I doubt you’re from Croatia and I’m sure you made this up. People from Croatia are an insignificant amount of the immigrant population there are hardly any in the U.K. or Ireland. How do I know? I worked for the home office. Just say you think the government prioritise immigrants without the whole made up story.
@@santanagonsalves6461 I don't even live in Ireland. Just wanted to share a story here. I live in Austria (my parents immigrated to here in the 90s). Why would I make this up? I didn't want to use Croatia as an argument point, but simply the fact that she went to Ireland with no prospective job and 4 kids and couldn't speak English and still got help, although she wasn't a refugee per se but simply an economic migrant. This is an issue that I will adress. Nothing of what I wrote is a lie. Every country should help the natives first and foremost.
I smell bull
Welcome to the right wing rage farm comment . See if you can spot the rest of them
the opinions of people who have an anime characters in their profile picture can be dismissed without evidence
What the hell, native Irish have to move abroad for housing, yet migrants and immigrants are coming to Ireland?! Something is not right.
Yep. Globalist parties and opposition. Thousands of migrants are eligible to vote also, and they're being bussed into the polling stations.
Hopefully the country has woken up today and vote them all out, knowing this country, it's wishful thinking.
@@marcustiberious5887 if Irish people are having a hard time affording a home or apartment, then where the heck are migrants and immigrants living? In abandoned warehouses? Camping in a forest?
Welcome to the modern Western world; where capital is prioritized over heritage and community.
@@geoffoakland didn’t you know? Indian tech workers pull in hundreds of thousands a year. These aren’t Mexican immigrants that work the fields we’re talking about.
Same here from England.
Ending the practice of short term rentals ends the shortage...
No joke. They're looking at the housing problem in America.
And real estate people in other countries are trying to copy it.
It’s a start but won’t fix the problem. Though I agree short term rentals have to go.
Airbnb killed affordable housing 😂
New Zealand is so unaffordable. These days when I talk to people from other Western nations, like Australia, Canada, the US, Ireland etc, we always speak of our highly unaffordable living costs. And yet the governments keep bringing in more migrants and everything is getting worse. Meanwhile, politicians keep getting richer.
You get what you vote for.
NZ is full of inbred degenerates. Turbos and tattoos boy racers motorbike gangs noise anti social behaviour everywhere.
NZ is #1 among developed countries in per capita homelessness.
@@shauncameron8390 Yes and no, New Zealand does rank up high on the list but NZ's definition of being homeless is a bit more generous than other places I suspect. "Statistical authorities in New Zealand have expanded their definition of homelessness to include ‘people living in improvised shelters’, ‘people staying in camping grounds/motor camps’ and ‘people sharing accommodation with someone else’s household’"
Feministm meant lack of birth rate and demograpy collapse for western's Countries. without having sustainable birth rate mean no tax slaves and men power to sustain expensive western's neo liberal society.
Without immigrant how western's countries can solve such demograpic issues.
If your parents let you live in their home with them; be grateful. Both my brother & I were basically expected to leave the family home at the age of 18.
Ha, really?) I think I'm from the big city and no one except me or my brother to leave parents property as soon as we graduate. However we had periods living separately, then come back, then again live separately.
I know if u are from a village it is pretty popular to move to the town after graduation in order to find better opportunities
Dysfunctional parents
" I left when I was 18 ", yeah back when a home cost 2 baskets of strawberries
This has been going on for years, and any balanced conversation about this is name called, as being far-right 🙄
I don't think anyone would call someone complaining about this "far right", it's the right who are behind it
Yes, mostly by Fine Gael - the party that the Irish people have just rewarded with the largest share of the vote in local elections. The Irish sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot.
They voted for this over and over again.
Everywhere from Ireland and Canada to Africa and Australia
Like US tech hubs San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles are also unaffordable for many residents. It's not a coincidence.
Yeah Dumblin chose to make itself a tax haven hub for Euro business, now the Irish people are paying the price.
LA is for celebrities.
In the us too. Those of us lucky enough to have family to take us in
Employers should have to pay a wage in which the locals can afford to live off of
That just drives up rent!
What like 100k minimum wage then
Then that drives up the cost of everything and guess what happens? The cost of those houses go up.
It's a supply issue.
That's not what caused the mass immigration problem.
We should all fly to Islamasbaghdad and then travel back to Ireland as a foreigner for a free house and handouts
Housing is no longer a place to live, it is an investment asset. Obvioulsy keeping the asset value of existing asstes high and going up is top priority.
Not great if you are young and have no existing assets to trade in.
In our western society to get ahead do not study or work, play the finace-casino market and better yet start off with big hand of assets to play aroun d with...
Not great is an understatement. The result is not living a life and staying with parents forever.
Just be born with rich parents
When the government speak of building “units” rather than “homes” you realise the heart has been torn out of a culture.
Maybe there's too many people and not enough places to live
Woah check out Einstein over here
The human population on this planet has tripled since the 1960's. Even since I was a child there are almost double the amount of people on the planet, and it's very noticeable. More people, more competition for resources, housing jobs etc, less patience, more stress on people holding society together like health care workers.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Where are they going to go? Same problems Australia, Canada, USA .....
The USA is the only place left, outside major cities.
Why is this such a common theme? Im 28 and live in the US you can talk to ppl my age in Canada, UK, Ireland, etc and it's the same story
Same as australia . Million immigrant a year no one can afford to leave home anymore . This is intentional
Not just Ireland
same thing is happening in Canada. I would love to live here in the country I was born in, but unfortunately its just not affordable.
Only if you insist on living in Toronto or Vancouver.
The same thing is happening in Canada. Rents are doubling and leaving many people with no place to live. Greed is a global problem it seems.
Not sure if it's about money, or power. Probably both.
Including that of people insistent on living in places and lifestyles their meager wages cannot support.
Yet people voted for the same government parties expecting something to change. The message sent to local politicians is that the Irish are happy with the current situation. Well done voters.
We have to vote for 2nd place and 3rd place and also use a pencil ...I really suspect dodgy business. Seriously, a pencil? That they can rub out.😂😂
Well done indeed and now as a result guaranteed to get a lot worse without a doubt. Anyone who voted that shower back in should shut up the writing was on the walls its worsening year in year out with those dingbats in power.
@@jamiemohan2049 indeed it was questionable
It's no better in any other English speaking country.
It seems ok in Malaysia and not too awful in Netherlands and rural US
@@cooledcannon Not sure about Malaysia. As for the Netherlands, it's worse there if anything. Rural US, that depends what part of it. It's a big place.
It feels like everyone but the public benefits from expensive housing. The banks get to loan huge mortgages and generate profits from high interest, and as long as you aren't investing in stocks or a business, you remain in the highest tax brackets, so the government wins as well. The system knows how hard to squeeze you before you leave or riot.
Affordable housing has been a growing issue for decades, yet little has been done, how can it be anything but deliberate?
Young Irish people working and paying taxes, but can't afford housing.
Meanwhile, economic migrants are given free accomodation and social welfare payments.
No, they are in tents or hotels. They get F all money, and that will eventually go.
True, civil unrest is going to happen for sure this country will change for the worse, even anti EU views are gaining more ground, migration has made Ireland a very dangerous place.
Prove it. Aw you can’t.
Prove what? It’s common sense at this point.
Sounds like the United States
Same thing in Australia
Resistance to building smart apartment buildings, and the association of such building with council flats, is a big part of it in the UK and Ireland. Sprawling housing estates won't do it for the young (or environment) when you need to run a car just to live there.
Same in Australia
Older Aussie’s are also being forced to go into share houses
That's what happens when housing becomes financialized.
Pretty much the western world. I’m in San Francisco I pay 4k for rent 400 for electric 200 for utilities it’s insane.
You must have a luxury unit. And I’m pretty knowledgeable about the Bay Area market.
@@r.mariano8118 it is and mainly because I need the space finding a 2 bed in the bay over 1k sq ft is a bit difficult if you won’t pony up the cash I run a small business out of my home
But San Francisco has a solid financial industry and Silicon Valley to justify its high rents.
@@shauncameron8390 a lot of people don’t make that kind of money it’s actually a small portion that actually do
Can we just cut to the point: Governments are all poor and are allowing investors and foreign buyers to purchase residential property to keep their income/real estate tax income.
Citizens are being pushed out of economically viable zones due to the corporate and foreign buyers.
Must be, has to be a Revolution…..it’s gone beyond the haves and have nots…..it’s starvation of masses against the over fed bloated elites
Same thing here in California! I know many adults, many even married, who returned to live with their parents, due to the high housing rental rates. It’s very hard for most people right now.
It's the same everywhere in Europe. I'm planning to leave the Netherlands forever (I'm an English speaker of mixed origin), and Ireland is one the countries I consider to move in. The housing never scares me. It's even worse in the Netherlands, especially, in big cities😂 I live in a SMALL town, and still pay 700 euros for a STUDIO (1/3 of my monthly income). Paying 1000 euros or more for the same studio in Dublin is not really bad, because Dublin is a big and influential city, and you can earn more there.
And, at least, Ireland has more lands to build houses. The Netherlands doesn't.
I worked in Ireland in 2021, and I'd love to return at some point. Employers are DESPERATE for employees. I had to leave because, you guessed it, I couldn't find housing.
Cost of living is higher where there is not adequate public transit or public sector help.
I live in a place close to Boston.
My transportation costs (on public transit) are minimal and I bought a condo twelve years ago in a homebuyers' assistance program.
Ban companies to buy hosing units for profit.
Could've replaced 'Ireland' with 'any western country with high immigration'
Western Europe typically is nowhere near this bad
Sadly, this has been the trend throughout most of the world
Hearing a real estate agent say it's heartbreaking is like a politician speaking truth.
There is no housing shortage, there is a population surplas due to immigration and the government trying to house, feed educate including university , and provide healthcare for anyone who comes. The birthrate per Irish woman is 1.6 yet the government hopes to build 56 thousand houses per year until 2050. Over a million houses to house foreigners. The danger with this is that it will cause serious instability, if hospitials, schools, parks, sewage works and roads to match are not built and the public certainly in my view dont want to pay for this. Particularly when we are planning to reduce our carbon out put dramatically, building and concrete production are heavy producers of carbon. It does not all add up.
How is there gdp per capita 1 of the highest in the world but people can't afford rent??
Multinationals using Ireland as a tax base make the GDP an unreliable indicator of the average Irish citizen.
It is a mirage, big corporations report all their earnings in Ireland, even if earned elsewhere, due to low taxes. It has nothing to do with wages.
@@henriklocke that has nothing to do with gdp
Because we have one of the highest housing inflation on top of highest gdp per capita
In other words if you put a Americans gdp per capita into irish cost of living the yank would die of starvation
Housing in Ireland is mostly private either owned by landlords or the bank
Even social housing isn't owned by the state its owned privately.
We're a tax haven
I've been a victim of pre rent control in Cork...we had a 3 bedroom in 2015 for 850 and they kicked us out and rented it for 2800
I live in Dublin, pay 2000 euros for 3 bedrooms and whenever I mention that to people here they say: oh you're lucky then. Imagine that.....
There is not just a lack of affordable housing. There is also a lack of unaffordable housing
Same problem in my little town (150K pop) but the Irish backpackers seem to have it sorted. They share houses once they get a job and they seem happy enough. Sure, it's not Sydney or Melbourne but we don't suffer any form of 'winter' either.
Unaffordable housing tends to be a generalized thing these days, not only in Europe but in a lot of other parts of the world.
35 still with my parents, at this age it dont matter anymore where i am lol
What’s wrong with living with your parents? You get to take care of each other
It's astonishing that this is everywhere.
A friend of mine in Romania found a cheap little cottage for €13K and her and her husband were fine until an entire company bought the entire land around them and they were forced to sell.
Now they have to pay exorbitant rent to the same company who owns a lot of buildings in their nearest city.
And then they blame the young person for not going into medicine or finance.
Rent control is not good and neither is government housing... The Irish keep on getting it wrong.
From a world perspective they are very fortunate. Not only to be living in a prosperous free Country but have wonderful parents who will sacrifice some of their Golden Years to help their children. Be thankful, you are guaranteed nothing. What were your Grandparents given?
Hypocrisy from the locals $ they don’t want to change they want to protect the status quo $
Follow Singapore’s Public Housing social policies for first time Home buyers. Hong Kong’s Housing policies on the other hand is a disaster…
LOL an Estate Agent saying Landlords are greedy, I have Estate agents chasing me to put up rents, when I don't want to, because they make more commission, they are often the ones instigating the rises in both rents and sales!!!!!!!! They send yearly emails saying lets put the rent up!!!!!!!!
they don't know how is expensive in the UK
Not really. Both the housing situation and the cost of living are way worse in Ireland than in the UK, although many UK residents don't always appreciate that.
@@michaellucas4873 I'm thinking of moving from the UK to Ireland becasue life is cheaper and better in Ireland.pharmacist in the Uk can earn 19£ in the UK ireland 40Euro per/h
But how? So few Irish. Migrants taking up space. Banking driving up assets and services like construction.
I love the way they call them "commuters" 🤣
Due to Massive Immigration housing in Australia has become a dream Multiple occupancy in houses is increasing and Multi generations living in a home has increased massively
It's like this everywhere. You have to take a risk and vote with your conscience, not along party lines or ideology. Vote for the candidate that will change the longstanding, ineffective paradigm. That's the only way to break the mold.
there are very few of those candidates. most countries have a fake left/right party paradigm which monopolizes politics.
I'm 49 and still live with my parents. There is no housing available here. If there are any the prices are sky high
i have a comparable apartment in florida. it cost 1800 a month.
Damn, at 3:14 is how big my backyard is in the U.S. And that for multiple houses in Ireland.
And you thought this was only a problem in the U.S. It’s obviously a problem in other countries and something must be done about the affordable housing crisis.
In the US, it's only a problem in the Northeast and West Coast.
@@shauncameron8390 I’m afraid you’re wrong. It’s actually getting expensive to live just about anywhere in the U.S. Of course some places may not be as expensive say as New York City or any of the major cities on the West Coast such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle but they are getting expensive to say the least. It used to be a lot cheaper where I live, but now it’s gotten to be more expensive than ever.
bet she voted for open boarders
And left-wing politicians that promised her "free" stuff.
It's even worse here in Australia. Something is clearly wrong worldwide
It‘s the great wealth transfer to the older generation…
Same in France.
Young people around the world.....have to live with parents.
Learn from Gaddafi from libiya best President who ever lived. Every one had a home . He gave interest free loans. They killed him for nothing
Not really. Maybe they killed him, because all the "free" stuff he provided them wasn't worth the repression and abuse they had to endure during his 42 years of rule.
😢
Is a global affair.Greddy banks, private investments firms, big an little landlords and, of course, with the approval of the corrupts politician and lawmakers than they always denied to be involved with.
Maintain artificially the market with low supply and high demand and you have the perfect storm for the citizens and the most profits for the powerful.As simple as that.What a shame of people!!
The solution is obviously to import more structural engineers, architects and builders from the English Channel.
what happened to ireland? its crazy! why wud anybody stay?
on a lighter note the fact that someone has christened their son "Alan" post 2000 has really made my day. Its brought me immense inner joy.
what is the big deal, they are LUCKY to have parents to go to!
NYC and the surrounding suburbs is even worse.
But NYC is the world's #1 financial center. NYC is understandable.
Just think to yourself: did you vote for this? Did you vote for mass immigration and low tax for the rich? No one did, we need to overturn the system.
You mean high taxes to fund their social programs designed to keep people poor through dependency.
Buy apartment, wtf?)
This is the problem all over the world! So sad and terrible
Not in North Korea. Or Cuba.
Who doesnt???
It's harder everywhere pal
Iv a house in mountmellick laois i left it empty and went to australia ,couodnt be bothered renting it
Is Australia any better?
@thekingspin9846 I work in mining ,I make 3200 dollars a week here , I'm a hd mechanic , yeah it's way better ,I work 6 weeks on 1 week off
I converted my wages to euro ,I get 2050 euro a week take home
Cry me a river. As in many countries, prideful buyers shun affordable areas to rent instead
If govt won’t enact the will of citizenry, what are you left with? Strongly worded letters? What a joke
#wellsfargo #Ireland make more house building schools, please. #Scotland
its ok they can complain to their own government instead of the British one.
Canada has taken over one million immigrants per year since the end of the pandemic. This has created a shortage of affordable housing so people should think twice before moving to Canada especially if you have a difficult time earning a decent income.
Some are making a lot of money in this business. There seems to be a lack of real leadership in Europe. Mr. and Mrs. More Money are the sole leaders.
You want a really strong everywhere economy? You're going to get everyone having more money to buy things. It creates a type of local inflation
$60 AUS to use a gay sauna - that's in 2006 money. You know the one where you go down the lane and if you turn there's the pub with the noughts and crosses windows facing you?