{"id":5317,"date":"2024-10-23T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2024-10-23T13:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:27:36","slug":"governments-housing-record-of-failure-is-a-clear-choice-for-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/governments-housing-record-of-failure-is-a-clear-choice-for-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Government\u2019s housing record of failure is a clear choice for voters"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the housing crisis is at the root of many of the problems we have in providing public services and is the result of a 13 year legacy of failure from Fine Gael government supported by Fianna F\u00e1il. <br \/><br \/>Speaking in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe housing crisis is a major factor in the difficulties we have in providing public services. Young teachers, garda\u00ed, nurses and workers of all persuasions cannot afford to live remotely close to their places of employment. A teacher or nurse in my area might live an hour or hours away. <br \/><br \/>\u201cHow can we make life in the public service appealing when we make such a basic necessity as a roof over your head unattainable for so many people? We heard only this week of college students sleeping in cars and on sofas or commuting for exhausting journeys because there simply is not enough housing. The possibility of owning your own home cannot be left to a small elite or the dream of so many.<br \/><br \/>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in has a plan to fix the housing crisis. We have workable, ambitious solutions that would alleviate the pressure on the housing market and allow supply to start to meet demand. Everyone should have the right to a secure and affordable home. An affordable home should be one where your housing costs are a reasonable percentage of your disposable income. It is not one that costs almost \u20ac600,000.<br \/><br \/>\u201cA woman who came into my office recently said she was earning too much for social housing, but not enough for affordable housing. That sums up the mess the Government has made of housing. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe Government will cut and run soon. It leaves behind a 13 year legacy of broken promises and missed targets on housing, 13 years of rising costs on rental properties, no security of tenure and record homelessness. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThey will say that homes cannot be built overnight, but Fine Gael entered government almost 5,000 nights ago.<br \/><br \/>\u201cVoters will shortly have a choice: more of the same in respect of affordable housing or something different.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the housing crisis is at the root of many of the problems we have in providing public services and is the result of a 13 year legacy of failure from Fine Gael government supported by Fianna F\u00e1il. Speaking in the D\u00e1il last night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5318,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}