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This seems like a highly politicised answer Australia has 1/3rd the population of the UK on a literal continent. In Ireland we also have a housing crisis, bec
by nopelynopington 2y ago
This seems like a highly politicised answer
Australia has 1/3rd the population of the UK on a literal continent.
In Ireland we also have a housing crisis, because ironically all of our young construction workers have emigrated to Australia because there's a huge construction boom there. If you restricted immigration you'd have a bigger housing crisis
- spacebanana7 2y agoIreland also has some of the strictest planning laws in the world. See the case study of a housing development of 52 flats that was prohibited because it’d harm the view out of a pub garden. https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/smithfield-eight-storey-apartments-rejected-due-to-height-and-impact-on-pub/a1729700800.html https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/smithfield-eight-sto...
- akmarinov 2y agoNot only that, but Australia has about as much population as Romania (26 vs 20 million)