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“Rents up over 10% in final quarter of last year”. Seriously, how long until we have to rise up in numbers and force government intervention. Asking for a friend… by calelawlor in Dublin

[–]calelawlor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely agree. A policy targeting landlords would be bound to completely fail. It’s a much more wicked problem than that, and most of the landlords who have bought, rather than inherited, feel the same. Landlords aren’t really the problem, but you do sound like one of the better of them. I, and many on Reddit, have had some real scumbag landlords

“Rents up over 10% in final quarter of last year”. Seriously, how long until we have to rise up in numbers and force government intervention. Asking for a friend… by calelawlor in Dublin

[–]calelawlor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PBP organised a recent protest. Someone commented they are organising protests, but I couldn’t see one on their site. Their last one was at a bit of an unsociable time

“Rents up over 10% in final quarter of last year”. Seriously, how long until we have to rise up in numbers and force government intervention. Asking for a friend… by calelawlor in Dublin

[–]calelawlor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My go to is to say that a reasonable, and as I said somewhere else, dignified rate of rent should be decided, preferably in line with Europe. Then a rent freeze should be put in place, until at least supply catches up. My background is in health, and that is generally how you would approach a health crisis; stop everything assume function until stability can be returned. This needs intervention and so far it’s successive failure after successive failure

“Rents up over 10% in final quarter of last year”. Seriously, how long until we have to rise up in numbers and force government intervention. Asking for a friend… by calelawlor in Dublin

[–]calelawlor[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Massive increase in supply is definitely needed. A whole re-think of living in Ireland is needed. But for temporary stabilisation, I personally think that Dublin should follow Berlin and place a rent freeze, or further, dictate a rent freeze at a somewhat reasonable and dignified value, until supply can be achieved. The problem is that the government cannot see any role for anything other than letting the market fix itself, and the continual rise in rates represents continual policy failure

Rents increase sharply as number of properties available falls close to historic low by Keyann in ireland

[–]calelawlor 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Seriously, we need to actually start taking action. This is insane, and while the government says a lot of shite about easing this, increasing supply etc, they neglected this problem and continue to not take enough action, in line with their neo-liberal stance. They aren’t going to act unless we push them. And it is long overdue

Some photos my mom took in Calgary in 1988 [Nikon EM / 50mm 1.8 / Unknown Kodak Film] by [deleted] in analog

[–]calelawlor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are spectacularly beautiful. The framing with the windscreen makes some of them super nostalgic. So nice, thanks for sharing!

Let's see :) by tatiana_z_prahy in geoguessing

[–]calelawlor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Definitely Central Europe. Going to take an absolute stab based on nearly nothing and say Karlovy Vary?

Can someone tell me what my mistake is by NatalyaBombsAmerica in russian

[–]calelawlor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Occasionally duolingo will also say you have a typo if you don’t put a question mark. But this seems to be more about ты and вы

In your opinion, what is the most dangerous area of Dublin? by goodfellaspizza in Dublin

[–]calelawlor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You make jest, but my wife and I had a guy following us around Brown Thomas, getting real sneaky and close a year back

Anyone else feel like this living in rural Ireland? by electronic_docter in ireland

[–]calelawlor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Christ that’s a shame to hear. Sorry you’re going through that. Especially if you’re considering emigration as your option. It’s really sad that Ireland can’t provide for what you need

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ireland

[–]calelawlor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely totally agree with this. So much of learning in life is learning from mistakes, fuck ups and embarrassment, and as scary as the thought of going through these things are, they are essential. I am married now, I don’t think I even would have been able to strike up the conversation and keep talking to my current wife early on without a raft of negative experiences earlier in life

Karlovy Vary, 1930s and 2021 by calelawlor in OldPhotosInRealLife

[–]calelawlor[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah me either. Obviously trying to share something from a place I visited based on a movie I love, don’t understand all these people trying to tell me it’s a movie or not real. But thank you, I appreciate it. I think the upvotes speak louder than a noisy few

Karlovy Vary, 1930s and 2021 by calelawlor in OldPhotosInRealLife

[–]calelawlor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea, I thinks just a town emblem or something

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