The Ireland Podcast27 Touko 2024

61. Lorcan Sirr: Lecturer and housing policy analyst

Episode 61 is an overview of the Irish property market with Lorcan Sirr, a senior lecturer of housing in the Technical University of Dublin as well as a housing policy analyst.

Conversation includes: introductions; Henry Sirr and Robert Emmet; personal career path; the returning diaspora; Aidan Regan; Mary Harny ‘Boston or Berlin’; an overview of the rental and buying sector; long term lets and short term lets; the taxpayer picking up the tab; escooters; capitalism and an arch form of capitalism; housing as an investment product; climate vs. housing political targets; building properties to rent vs. properties to buy; Rory Stewart; medium level properties; the lack of high rise buildings in Paris; large family homes; the knockon effect of height cap changes and land value; overview of commercial property; the recent overlaps of commercial property and private property; the Alone charity; nursing homes; cladding; the inflation of prices over the decades; the challenges of the returning diaspora; immigrants; Roderic O'Gorman; integration and foreign workers; immigration increasing; advice to anyone engaging with politicians; Ireland’s permanent housing crisis and other topics.

Relevant Links

https://www.ipa.ie/social-administration/housing-in-ireland-beyond-the-markets.5839.html

https://www.orpenpress.com/book-author/dr-lorcan-sirr/

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/02/28/lorcan-sirr-there-are-more-than-18000-houses-to-rent-on-airbnb-vs-2000-on-daft-something-is-very-wrong/

Additional Links

https://alone.ie

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