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@alxwlsdn @KitMurray @RoryHearneGaffs @colmhealy @ThresholdIRE Interesting point. My view is that if tenant obligations remain as they currently are, why would banks have an issue? Obviously landlords (& banks) need to recover the property at some point, but as long as this is possible the nature of the investment shouldn't be too impacted

@alxwlsdn @KitMurray @RoryHearneGaffs @colmhealy @ThresholdIRE I work in a university. It's a lot easier for students to dropout than for us to expel them, as it should be. A patient can leave hospital when they want, but hospital discharges are heavily regulated. Parity of conditions seems to me an arbitrary way of thinking about this 2/2

@alxwlsdn @ronanlyons Very true. Supply is way below demand for sure. The problem is that there are competing policy objectives: supply, affordability, and increasing homeownership rate. It's easy to figure out how to do 1 of these, but hard to do all 3 at the same time

It seems Fianna Fáil think that 9 years into a 3-year 'temporary' rent control measure is the right time to *start* thinking about what comes next 🤔

@ronanlyons Very fair points Ronan! Our regime is particularly unnuanced for sure. Of note re Eastern Europe, many have tiny rental sectors. Romania has homeownership rate of 96%! Many also have weak demand due to massive youth emigration

@RMcGreevy1301 Thanks a mil

RT @TonightVMTV: "There was massive anxiety amongst renters," says @RoryHearneGaffs, addressing concerns caused by the Taoiseach’s statemen…

@alxwlsdn @KitMurray @RoryHearneGaffs @colmhealy @ThresholdIRE Why must security work both ways?

@FreelanceWebDev An emergency is the time you most need to do research. Rushing into policies without knowing what impact they have is hardly going to help.

@finbarmcd @rtenews The main issue with this is it creates an incentive for landlords to end an existing tenancy so they can re-let at higher rate. So it increases volume of involuntary moves. The basic idea of allowing rents to adjust back closer to market rate makes sense but better way needed

@ronanlyons In what sense are market prices the norm in EU? They are common in central and eastern Europe but not in western Europe. Although of course many countries set initial rents at market rate, exempt new properties (as we do) or exempt properties built after a certain date

@FreelanceWebDev Banks care about being able to recover vacant posession in event of default and sale price too. Not insormountable but no research on it for Ireland

@danobrien20 Our affordability issues are very concentrated among market price renters as @RachelSlaymake1 has shown. But also our rent subsidies v expensive for Gov of course

RT @NiamhTowey1: Looking to speak to someone who is living and renting in a Rent Pressure Zone and is concerned about the impact any change…

@NiamhTowey1 Bes of luck.

@KitMurray @RoryHearneGaffs @colmhealy @ThresholdIRE Yes exactly. Its not rocket science but debate is polarized between 0 and 100% security. Bit of common sense can sort this issue long term

@ronanlyons If it was as simple as deregulation every country would leave it to the market

RT @1BedsAreHomes: And secondly, RPZs has taken a lot of secondary rentals off the open market, in order to not get hundreds of phone calls…