Agree completely. Land owners have a strong incentive never to increase housing supply in a way that would reduce prices. Taxing vacant sites is needed to change this.

Green Party spot on here. The history of Dublin's suburbs shows us that land zoned for housing gets developed eventually. The tax is simply about speeding this process up.

If you're wondering why I'm against the decision to 'defer' the Residential Zoned Land Tax these webinars I ran on land for housing explain my thinking youtube.com/playlist?list=…. Other European countries make housing affordable by actively managing land supply. We must do the same

Reneging on the Residential Zoned Land Tax protects nobody but a tiny elite of the land-hoarding wealthy. We are in a crisis in this country and land use is a resource to solve it. 1/2

Been waiting for this since Kenny Report 1973. Beware proposals for 'better alternatives' as often enough they are promoted as a way to postpone action now in the knowledge that they have no realistic possibility of ever being implemented

Another reason the Residential Zoned Land Tax needs to be implemented without further delay. Exempt actively farmed small sites and get on with it.

Finally someone joining the dots. Next question is who gains and who loses from rapid economic growth in a country with a massive deficit in social infrastructure?

Really dissapointing stuff from Cian O'Callaghan T.D. The only way to increase train capacity is to have connection trains at junctions…. Populism at its worst!

This piece highlights the coherence of SFs proposals for the PRS: they recognise that a radical shift to a pro tenant regime needs to be combined with the growth of social, affordable and owner occupied sectors to counteract the likely exit of PRS providers.

1/6 Some of the main findings from our Cost Rental report. Average age of adults is 37 yo, most typical household is 2 adults + kids. Median household disposable income is €42,300 Rory Hearne Ann-Marie O'Reilly Colm Healy melreynolds Killian Woods Sarah Sheridan Robert Sweeney

Opinion: Our research shows the new tenure type of Cost Rental has many benefits ⁦FionaDunkin⁩ discussing findings of our study on cost rental housing jrnl.ie/6485755

Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing a synopsis of the main findings of our cost rental report over on my site (link in bio), starting today with an intro to cost rental and an analysis of the profile of cost renters and household composition.

This is a great piece in The Irish Times today covering our report on cost rental. Mary's story is a powerful example of the potential of cost rental to change our housing system irishtimes.com/ireland/housin…

Ireland's housing system is in crisis with record homelessness, unaffordable rents and many locked out of home ownership. Scaling up Cost Rental is one of the only ways that the crisis can be solved. This article explains why Cost Rental is a game changer jrnl.ie/6485755

Piece with Cian O'Callaghan in Irish Examiner today looking at cost rent affordability issue & what can be done. A targeted rent subsidy is way forward, as well as tackling costs Eoin Ó Broin Michelle Norris Cian O'Callaghan T.D. Rory Hearne Colm Healy irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

Good piece on improving cost rent affordability. Another alternative which needs to be explored is spreading the capital cost over say 60 rather than 40 years as proposed by SF. The current rent setting model overburdens tenants in the early years.