Solving Ireland's Housing Crisis

Описание: Ireland’s government has pledged to deliver 300,000 homes by 2030. On paper, the plan contains strong ideas: fixing infrastructure, enabling transit-oriented development, activating land, expanding social and affordable housing, and encouraging modern construction methods.

But it still won’t solve Ireland’s housing crisis.

Because Ireland doesn’t have one housing crisis. It has multiple housing crises: a shortage of homes to rent, to buy, of social housing, and these vary dramatically by county.

This video argues that the real failure isn’t a lack of ideas — it’s a lack of systems thinking, transparency, accountability, data, experimentation, and contingency planning.

Housing delivery is not a single system. It’s many interacting systems: planning, materials, labour, finance, infrastructure, regulation, training, and market incentives. Fixing one or two elements has little effect if the rest continue to suppress supply.

In this video, we explore:

Why Ireland needs public dashboards to track housing delivery
Why project pages with named accountability should exist for every housing bottleneck
Why the government must allow local pilot schemes and experimentation
How pre-approved planning based on quantitative metrics could transform small developments
Why Ireland’s interpretation of EU environmental rules and building regulations needs re-examination
How bulk buying of materials and domestic manufacturing could reduce costs
The case for a state construction company and an Irish housing investment fund
Why training for trades needs to be modular, faster and globally accessible
The importance of worker accommodation to unlock labour supply
How to make dereliction, vacancy and idle land financially irrational
Why Part V, current rental regulations, and CPO processes may be restricting supply
How transit-oriented development, street plans, and protected structure reform could unlock urban density
Ireland's derelict stock, rent-a-room, first-time buyer only developments, and centralised buyer platforms matter
Why Ireland needs a single National Housing Delivery Authority with full oversight
And why data centres, infrastructure delays, and fragmented builders are quietly suppressing output
Some ideas overlap with the government’s plan. Others deliberately challenge it.
This video is designed to start a serious debate about how Ireland can move from housing targets to housing delivery.
Because solving this crisis is not about announcing numbers.
It’s about fixing the system that produces homes.

Chapters
00:00 The problem with the 300,000 homes plan
01:13 Thinking in systems
02:05 Planning, transparency & accountability
2:43 Experimentation & pilot schemes
3:34 Data, dashboards
4:12 Contingency logic
5:07 Planning reform & quantitative approvals
5:55 EU Regulations, materials & construction costs
6:14 Building Regulations
7:20 Bulk Buying Materials
7:46 Domestic Manufacturing
8:06 Infrastructure
8:42 Alternative Materials
9:18 Modern Construction Methods
10:03 Part V
10:33 State Construction Company
11:10 Housing Fund
12:54 Training, Worker accommodation & Recruitment
14:34 Finance
15:00 Construction Costs
15:25 Apartment Bulk Buying Platform
15:56 First Time Buyers Only, TOD & Street Plans
17:24 Rent A Room Scheme
18:18 Derelict Homes & Retired Construction Workers
18:58 Fixer Uppers & Training
19:33 CPOs
19:50 Protected Structures
20:02 National Rental Portal
21:20 Experimentation
21:45 Construction Company Collaboration
22:49 Bedsits
23:17 Data Centers
23:36 Construction Industry Feedback


Street Plans:    • Democratic Densification with Street Plans  
TOD:    • The Radical Solution to Ireland's Housing ...  
Alternative Materials:    • Irelands Housing Crisis