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RE: BUILDING COSTS
It is incredible how little attention this issue is receiving in mainstream debate and media. The per-home delivery costs are an issue for the anti-housing brigade when it suits (ala €300k-€390k BAD for #buildoscartraynor yet not a word about €375k
It is incredible how little attention this issue is receiving in mainstream debate and media. The per-home delivery costs are an issue for the anti-housing brigade when it suits (ala €300k-€390k BAD for #buildoscartraynor yet not a word about €375k
for Emmett Road). From a Dublin City perspective we need to eliminate apples v oranges from the cost discussions including:
- building down the country versus building inside the M50
- building 2-storey semi-D housing versus high-density apartments
- building down the country versus building inside the M50
- building 2-storey semi-D housing versus high-density apartments
- false comparisons based on excluding/including land costs, excluding/including development levies etc.
I will be pushing @DubCityCouncil to publish its own Building Costs Register so we can @ least have an informed debate around build costs based on the real world.
I will be pushing @DubCityCouncil to publish its own Building Costs Register so we can @ least have an informed debate around build costs based on the real world.
Personally I am struck by how little structured analysis of recent building costs has been done - perhaps I'm missing it and I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
However ultimately if we want to get into affordability we need to look critically at building costs.
However ultimately if we want to get into affordability we need to look critically at building costs.
The ESRI report sets out the scale of what needs to be built but if we don't tackle costs we are into either (a) further affordability issues particularly for those who ain't already comfortably houses or (b) wholesale subsidisation.
*housed
