{"id":762,"date":"2019-05-21T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/231110-2\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:06:45","slug":"231110-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/231110-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister championing downgrading of living conditions with \u2018co-living\u2019 proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Social Democrats today accused the Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy of allowing developers to maximise profits at the expense of young people desperate for housing in Dublin with his enthusiastic support of \u201cco-living\u201d accommodation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"et-pullquote\"><p>\u201cCo-living is not a solution to the rental crisis, the housing crisis or the homelessness crisis. It is just another easy way for private developers to pile \u2018em high in cramped conditions that would make bedsits look spacious.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Social Democrats today accused the Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy of allowing developers to maximise profits at the expense of young people desperate for housing in Dublin with his enthusiastic support of \u201cco-living\u201d accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u201cco-living\u201d model that the Minister is so keen to promote is not a solution to the rental crisis, the housing crisis or the homelessness crisis. It is just another easy way for private developers to pile \u2018em high in cramped conditions that would make bedsits look spacious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt truly beggars belief that the Minister is publicly endorsing this box-room model of housing which is about maximising profits at the expense of people who desperate for a place to live in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis model of communal living is neither sustainable nor affordable. Instead of prioritising quality and affordable homes to buy or rent, Minister Murphy is championing the downgrading of living conditions and living standards for an entire generation of young people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister is pathetically defending co-living as \u2018part of bringing greater choice to the housing market\u2019. But the reality is people aren\u2019t being given the opportunity to choose decent and reasonably-sized houses or apartments because Fine Gael government is simply not building them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>21st May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Democrats today accused the Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy of allowing developers to maximise profits at the expense of young people desperate for housing in Dublin with his enthusiastic support of \u201cco-living\u201d accommodation. \u201cCo-living is not a solution to the rental crisis, the housing crisis or the homelessness crisis. 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