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Me, clearly an idiot: “Well, there’s a housing crisis in #Ireland so maybe one idea is to try to buy some land and erect an energy-efficient modular home on it; should also be minimally invasive…”
Ireland: Well, here’s the thing, this is local land for local people (in many places you can only buy land if you’re a local – and we’re talking “been here a few generations” local… EU freedom of establishment… feck that…) Oh, also, if you want a modular home, good luck securing a mortgage for it…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Is it like this across all of Ireland?
@Conatusprinciple Not everywhere. But lots of places. Seems Wicklow, especially, is terrible for it.
@aral @Conatusprinciple it's in the development plan that development happens in certain areas, usually towns/villages. exceptions built into the development plan (for locals , people working the land etc) are where they're fudging things. In Wicklow, the planners will not speak to individuals before, during, or after your application, & approvals/refusals are delayed til just before the deadline. So simple back&forth takes years. In co Wexford,you can speak directly to planners, no waiting
@aral i know you've had mixed experiences in sweden, but buying a home in denmark is pretty easy and »cheap« – even if you're unlocal :-)
As Ireland is also in the business of damaging GDPR (Facebook et al. Createing a law making GDPR investigations secret) and cutting taxes for international corporations, that is not really surprising?
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it's a mystery why they have so many abandoned houses
@frankiesaxx Yeah, fuck that, no way I’m moving to the arse end of nowhere for €80,000*. Wouldn’t be fun trying to use git via carrier pigeon.
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You'd think if they really want people moving into old houses and remote communities they'd have some kind of mortgage scheme as well as just a refurbishment grant
@aral@mastodon.ar.al housing policy is where wide sectors of society live out their fascist tendencies.
@antonia It would appear so.