These small changes could remove enough risk so as to push the cost of construction down considerably.
Problems to Solve
In our modern world, with all sorts of amazing technologies changing whole industries, it seems less than productive to polarise problems such as the housing crisis as "the state" on one side, versus "the private sector" on the other, as this runs the risk of ruling out ideas just because they don't strictly adhere to a particular ideology.
Dr Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor in Social Policy in The Department of Applied Social Studies in Maynooth University, has been vocal for quite some time regarding the state of the housing crisis here in Ireland. I find myself in complete agreement with him in that I too feel that the current systems we are using to meet one of humanity’s most basic needs - shelter - are simply not working. It is for...
What a big question. It would be easy to throw blame around, but I don't think that's appropriate, nor would it really be accurate to point the finger. There are many reasons why things don't work as they should or could. Simply, the type of property market we have now is as a result of some things outside Irish control, some decisions that with 20-20 hindsight may have been made differently and, most...