{"id":754,"date":"2019-05-13T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T09:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/fine-gael-abandons-renters-to-private-market-while-ignoring-housing-solutions\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:09:28","slug":"fine-gael-abandons-renters-to-private-market-while-ignoring-housing-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/fine-gael-abandons-renters-to-private-market-while-ignoring-housing-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Gael abandons renters to private market while ignoring housing solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD today blasted the government for abandoning renters as the latest Daft.ie figures show that the number of homes available to rent has reached its lowest level since 2006.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"et-pullquote\"><p>\u201cInstead of getting on with building affordable homes, the Fine Gael government continues to pretend that the market can solve this escalating problem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD today blasted the government for abandoning renters as the latest Daft.ie figures show that the number of homes available to rent has reached its lowest level since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Murphy said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of housing including astronomical rents is the single biggest driver of the high cost of living for people. Instead of getting on with building affordable homes, the Fine Gael government continues to pretend that the market can solve this escalating problem. As today\u2019s daft.ie figures once again show, this is the least effective and most expensive approach to increasing housing supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith average monthly rent nationwide now standing at \u20ac1,366, it\u2019s crystal clear that a whole generation of renters have been effectively abandoned to the private rental sector. Rent pressure zones have failed and many people living in rental accommodation are struggling to keep roofs over their heads while living with the daily fear of sudden rent hikes or eviction notices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Social Democrats manifesto for local government, we propose a rapid scale up in the rate of house building by local authorities on public landbanks particularly on brownfield sites that are suitable for residential development and could be brought into use quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of the larger approved housing bodies have come together and are right now putting it up to the Government to support their proposals to provide a major social and affordable cost rental building programme to meet the scale of need that exists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet once again this government continues to pander to the failed \u2018market will provide\u2019 ideology and point-blank refuses to act to deliver the scale of social and affordable homes that are so badly needed around the county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>13th May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD today blasted the government for abandoning renters as the latest Daft.ie figures show that the number of homes available to rent has reached its lowest level since 2006. \u201cInstead of getting on with building affordable homes, the Fine Gael government continues to pretend that the market can solve this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,6,7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catherine-murphy","category-general","category-press-release","tag-housing-crisis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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