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recent bookmarks from jmHundreds of residents vent anger over 'entirely pointless' hydrogen heating trial2023-03-02T21:49:40+00:00
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/policy/exclusive-hundreds-of-residents-vent-anger-over-entirely-pointless-hydrogen-heating-trial-during-hostile-public-meeting/2-1-1411845?s=03
jmInfluential energy analyst Michael Liebreich and University of Cambridge mechanical engineering professor David Cebon drew attention to the now-37 independent studies showing that hydrogen boilers would require about five times more renewable energy than heat pumps — likely making them significantly more expensive to run.
“This trial is entirely pointless in terms of proving whether hydrogen is the most cost-effective way of decarbonising homes,” Liebreich told the audience. “Every single systems analysis from every single expert who is not paid for by the gas industry or the heating industry has concluded that hydrogen plays little or no role.
“The thing that it’s intended to do, though, is maintain the debate and discussion and the delay [of decarbonisation]. If you’re running a gas network organisation, as our next speaker [Cadent head of strategy, Angela Needle] does, what you really want is to continue to harvest profits off that. If you invest today in a gas distribution network, you get to charge 6% per year for 45 years on that investment and that’s until 2068.”
]]>hydrogen h2 grey-hydrogen greenwashing gas natural-gas heating homes decarbonisationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f719a9f744a8/Dr Rory Hearne: The Government does not want you to be able to afford to buy a home2021-05-06T08:43:47+00:00
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/ireland-investment-housing-5428746-May2021/
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The Government has been called on to do something to stop this. Even Fianna Fáil politicians have come out crying crocodile tears of outrage. But the truth is the investor purchase of housing in Ireland on a major scale is actually Government policy and has been for the last decade.
The Government does not actually want you to be able to buy or rent an affordable home. They have created an unaffordable housing system that is focused on delivering housing as an investment asset, not a home.[...]
This current crisis has been brewing for a long time. It goes back to the Celtic Tiger days of the late 1990s and early 2000s when the Fianna Fáil-PD Governments encouraged the shift from housing to be treated as a home, to people buying it up as an investment asset.
They told people to speculate in the property market and gave tax breaks for landlords to buy a second, or third, home to rent out. These became the ‘buy-to-let’ investors. The banks lent out massively which added fuel to the fire of rising housing prices, and the inevitable crash happened in 2008 and 2009.
As their response to the disaster they had created, Fianna Fáil turned to global ‘vulture’ funds to buy up the bad loans and failed housing projects. They set up the ‘bad bank’ NAMA, which went on, under the Fine Gael Government from 2011 to the current day, to sell off (at a discount) huge land banks and billions of euro worth of properties to vulture and real estate investment funds.
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reits real-estate ireland politics housing homes rory-hearnehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c23143f1035d/Room to Breathe: My Quest to Clean Up My Home's Filthy Air2019-12-20T14:49:11+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-for-clean-air/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1
jmair air-quality particulates pm2.5 pm10 health paranoia homeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1bc1a7e0be78/Gaffologist2019-06-27T09:50:48+00:00
https://www.gaffologist.com/
jmdataviz mapping ireland homes rent homehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cb131b358985/igloohome Smart Mortise2019-02-15T12:30:59+00:00
https://www.igloohome.co/products/mortise/
jmvia:threeze smart-locks locks iot crypto igloohome homeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c08f1bc45c24/Can I Extend and Renovate my “Fixer Upper” for €100,000? A First Time Buyer’s Renovation Budget Explained2018-02-22T16:56:25+00:00
http://dkad.ie/index.php/can-i-extend-and-renovate-my-fixer-upper-for-e100000-a-first-time-buyers-renovation-budget-explained/
jmIn 2013, €100,000 was like a king’s ransom to most businesses in the Irish construction industry. Now clients approach us with budgets at this level and are shocked when we tell them how little can be achieved with such a large sum of money. We have decided to tackle this issue with a clear worked example.
In 2018, rates for some types of construction have increased 50% since the recession, client expectations have increased, there is a shortage of competent construction workers, and subcontractors are now more accountable for quality.
These pressures have inflated the many expenses which make up a typical renovation budget. Even the most seasoned commercial clients are struggling to achieve tenable construction prices, and first time buyers must understand the financial risk of buying a home in need of complete renovation.
whoa.]]>renovation homes architecture houses buildinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7762a5391f30/Repair and Leasing Scheme - Peter Mc Verry Trust2017-05-11T10:47:06+00:00
https://www.pmvtrust.ie/emptyhomes/repair-leasing-scheme/
jmMinister Simon Coveney and the Department of Housing have provided funding of €32 million in 2017 for the Repair and Leasing Programme and set a target of 800 units to be delivered this year (2017). A total of €140 million has been allocated to the repair and leasing scheme over the lifetime of Rebuilding Ireland.
The Repair and Leasing Scheme at a Glance:
Targets Properties Empty or Derelict for 1 Year or more
Grants to Property owners of up to €40,000 to get properties back into use
Lease Terms of 10, 15 or 20 Years
State Guaranteed Rental Income for Duration of Lease
Property and Tenants Managed by Approved Housing Bodies [the Peter McVerry Trust in D1,
D3, D7 and D9]
]]>peter-mcverry homelessness dublin housing repair derelict-buildings homes ireland propertyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5cf60e7d6bd0/Bidding Website Rentberry May Be the Startup of Your Nightmares2017-04-04T11:02:27+00:00
https://gizmodo.com/bidding-website-rentberry-may-be-the-startup-of-your-ni-1793940693
jmA landlord lists a rental space and potential tenants bid against one another to claim the lease. Tenants’ personal information is available to the landlord. The landlord then makes their final decision by weighing what the best offer is along with which bidder seems like they’d be the best tenant
]]>grim-meathook-future horror renting rent tenancy rentberry libertarian homes startupshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a8727f0dc8d9/Rents dwarf Celtic Tiger era with ‘disastrous effect’ on society2016-11-08T10:54:14+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/personal-finance/rents-dwarf-celtic-tiger-era-with-disastrous-effect-on-society-1.2857722
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“The scale of the challenge here remains depressing,” says the report. “It has never been viable to build apartment blocks in the vast majority of this country.” [...] The report notes that the rise in living costs of almost three quarters in less than five years is “a symptom of strong demand for housing” as economic recovery continues and the population grows.
“But there is nothing inevitable about housing costs rising with demand,” it says. “That only happens when supply fails to respond, and the complete absence of any meaningful level of construction over the past five years is a systemic failure in desperate need of policy solutions.
“There is no more urgent task facing the Minister for Housing, his department and advisers, and the Housing Agency, than understanding why the costs of building, and building apartments in particular, is so dramatically out of line with our own incomes and indeed with the cost in other countries.”
]]>daft housing ireland fail homes rent buildinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:19c9dd8135e4/High home ownership can seriously damage labor market, new study suggests2013-05-27T11:00:15+00:00
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130507060845.htm
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