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In Dublin on 1st of February 2025 there were 1200 properties available to rent in a city of 1.5 million.
I wonder what could have happened in Dublin to use up loads of the available housing? Does anyone know?
I know next to nothing about the US but France has 3 million unoccupied housings. https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7727384
Literally in the title of the article "... in areas of decreasing demographics ...". So yes if you are willing to live in areas : - without jobs, - without healthcare - in ghost towns
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New housing doesn't have to be affordable for everyone. Median income goes towards old housing.
When more people are being priced out of a market than new housing units are added, then yeah they do need to be cheaper to make housing more available. The net result is more stratification, not less. Ask anyone how to make cheap housing though. No one has a convincing answer. I'm convinced that it's the right question.
And who the hell wants a poor person as a neighbour.
This isn't everywhere. I live in Nashville and we have SO MUCH housing being built. Just apartment building after apartment building after apartment building.
It is a big problem in Democratic states like California, where the leftists (Dean Preston and other leftist NIMBYs) have allied themselves with homeowner liberals to make it impossible to build housing. Republican states like Texas do a significantly better job, as you can see by looking at annual per capita new housing, and lower rental inflation. There's a growing liberal movement to change this status quo but the…
Would this be considered creative non-fiction? Do you remember that teacher in school who would sometimes lash out at a poorly performing student? This made me feel like I was watching a frustrated lash out from someone who cares. Captures the author's feelings; but fails as a piece of persuasion.
It is humor. I don't watch south park to be persuaded for example.
It is still an argument.
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Literally in the title of the article "... in areas of decreasing demographics ...". So yes if you are willing to live in areas : - without jobs, - without healthcare - in ghost towns
I happen to live in a rural area. Rural France is not the third world. Small towns are very much alive. Healthcare is organized around "pôles de santé". Now about jobs... that's an interesting point and probably the most important. The society as whole should favor decentralizing work. There is no point in concentrating jobs around big cities.
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How did that happen? People buy houses and then not live there like Canada? Or there is not enough people? Can I move to france and live for free pls
Sure, if you don't mind living out in the sticks :P France has a big concentration of people around the big cities with a big empty diagonal in the middle of the country, form south-west to north-east (literally called 'la diagonale du vide'). Not only are you far from anything resembling a city, but infra for public & private transport are lacking. So if you can wfh and find a place with good 4g/5g coverage, and you…
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This is a scapegoat at best in areas with high homelessness. The mentally ill and drug abusers are the most visible part of the homeless population not all the homeless population. There are also complex relations to cause vs effect where mental illness may be at manageable levels until a crisis like homelessness exacerbates it or drug use may be a result of being homeless instead of a cause.
The mentally ill and drug abusers are also the ones who need to be dealt with in a way totally separate from those who are struggling but trying to get back on their feet and need a place to shower and sleep safely. They cause disproportionate damage to cities and the cause of aiding homeless itself. It's asinine to conflate the two issues and waffle back and forth between "more houses" and nimby name-calling. Neithe…