Housing Supply & Demand, Ireland 1962
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2022
- With a new Housing Bill due a look back at how the 118,000 houses were built in Ireland between 1948 and 1962.
Reporter RG Rowling describes the average three-bedroom corporation house.
There’s nothing special about them... but they symbolise the finest thing that Ireland has ever done.
Colm O’Doherty of the Department of Local Government and Head of the National Building Agency outlines the developments that have taken place since the end of World War II in relation to the provision of housing in Ireland and the costs involved.
Since 1948, the local authorities have built around sixty thousand houses. In the same period, private enterprise has built fifty-eight thousand houses. There have been sixty-seven thousand houses rebuilt or reconstructed with state assistance. This construction has provided homes for approximately half a million people. The government provided funding of approximately £150 million for the public housing and the bulk of the funding for private housing since 1948. The state also pays just over £2 million a year to local authorities for the maintenance of these properties. The state also makes £2.5 million in grants for private housing. Under the Urban Slum Clearance Programme, many people have now been provided with new homes.
RG Rowling also speaks to builder Mr Forkin about the boom in the building industry. Mr Forkin says the industry is booming and we have a situation where
The demand is greater than the supply.
Mr Forkin points to the growing urbanisation of Dublin and migration as key factors contributing to the rising demand for property. He also sees the general improvement in the economy as an influential factor on the building industry as construction is dependent on the success of the economy as a whole.
If you have prosperity in the country, you have prosperity in the building industry.
There is growing demand and competition for building sites within a radius of six miles of the General Post Office (GPO) on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. The price of land has increased from about £1,000 an acre to about £2,500 an acre in the last 12 months. This will inevitably result in higher costs of housing.
RG Rowling closes this report
Well, that’s the housing story up to now. Tremendous job. Fairly well done too and a boom in the industry at the moment and a good future expected. Surely it is the best thing that we’ve ever done.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 13 July 1962. The reporter is RG Rowling. 
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This is one of the earliest pieces on RTÉ. I don't think I've ever seen a clip from RTÉ from 1962!
Most houses didn't even have an antenna yet. No problem. There wasn't a kid in Ballyfermot who couldn't climb that roof and put one up 😊
Back when we built enough houses
We have enough houses but unfortunately they are in the hands of the banksters that have raped this country
There's 330+ million living in the US, along with all the illegals and third world families coming here. The population number IS the issue!
The country was on its knees back then and the outstanding work that was done to build homes for our people, they put the government of today in the halfpenny place.
Presenter saying ‘there is nothing special about these houses’ what a snob! To be able to move into a house like this back then was an absolute joy and privilege for families, especially if they had previously lived in flats.
The birth of snobby RTE arrogance
yeah the flats around sheriff street and NIC were abysmally bad. families were bigger then an you easily had 10 plus kids living in 2 bedroom flats. these were like mansions for the families moving in. good solid houses too.
More fact not snobbery
What was special about these houses is that they were well designed and the best of materials used. Compare that to the crap that is on offer on the private market these days.
They all had coal gas then too. Very high calorific value. Lovely to cook on and the coal fires heated the water too.
I cannot see he is a snob as he stating fact.....My parents were German and could not afford anything in 1957 my father was a cabinet maker, they borrowed money and bought a condemned detached cottage with a large garden anything we needed he had to make ladders, scaffolding, windows, doors even the electric saw to make them on. My mother hated the houses you see in the film. We moved into the condemned detached cottage with one ton of red sand in the front room and a iron tablet which we used as a table. We used a hand cart to try and bring home second hand bricks etc. Well the short of the story is I am still living in the cottage from 1957 until the present day which is 3/5/2022. To that time which I remember people had the opportunity to buy as we did a condemned cottage but preferred one of the modern house's that you see in this film......
Great story thanks.. just curious wheres the cottage
The cottage you have now is a real home i.e the history your dad and his handy skills. Then the big garden, so you'd have a bit of peace as well. Even grow a bit of veg. Great☘🧚♂️🇮🇪
The cottage you have now is a real home i.e the history your dad and his handy skills. Then the big garden, so you'd have a bit of peace as well. Even grow a bit of veg. Great☘🧚♂️🇮🇪
You're on here preaching about ''buying'' yet, have never moved out of the family home. ''We'', you never paid a thing.
@@MartinMartinm Hello I was referring to 1957 not 2022. As a family we all had to work extremely hard all had their part to play in order to survive. Going into debt was seen as poor way to live especially if one could not pay that debt in 1957 the small amount of pocket money I had would be used for the cottage large amounts of cement would be mixed buy hand, some heavy material would be bought home on our Push bikes. My brother and mother played a large roll as well. So I have earned this cottage many times over Best wishes David...............
We got a country detached council house in 1965. My dad was given a nearly 2 acre site for free by the next door neighbours to our new council house and my mother then had to persuade the council to build a house on it. My parents bought the house from the council in the 70's and I still live in it today. Its great having all the space. I think I would go mad living in a terraced house with only a small garden.
The efforts made (starting in real earnest in the 1930s) shame the present political class, but none of them are capable of feeling shame.
He had to check ✔ if the garden was there 😆
Is it just me or did the accents of people born pre-independence have a slight Anglo twang compared to future generations?
That was 30 odd years after independence, just posh people😄
Rich landowners, and developers. He does speak rather well, the last man interviewed. Does he have an Anglo Limerick accent. A bit like Dessie O'Malley accent. The interviewer is very clearly spoken as well. God bless them, they must have left the Earthly plains at this stage.🧚♂️
The "future generations" have an American twang due to the internet.
Broadcasters had fake accents because of the limitations of microphone technology back then. They also often had high pitched voices to cut through the static. Mícheál O Hehir for example.
I'm English, but these clips make me feel nostalgic for the old Ireland!
Year of my birth in old Australia
Was it a foolish thing for the state to sell these houses and allow the recipients of public housing to buy their houses?
A huge mistake.
Having a cigarette ,he must have been a chain smoker..
The Irish people have the right to self determination , Irish state must create a safe homeland for the Irish people,
The Presenter might as well be in a studio. He talks to two men, one outside newly built houses and the other, on a plot of land with some structural building in the background. He doesn’t bother to show us around any of the houses built or tell us exactly where they are. The same, in the second instance. No information. Was it a big secret?
Lol, the state is paying ......who....millions of pounds per year?
Financial shenanigans by politicians.
"There is nothing special about these houses" what about homeless people 😮
There were hardly any homeless people back then unless they chose that lifestyle. Different nowadays.
@@oscarman58 They deserve another chance at least they are irish.
@@saberbo89 21% of Irelands homeless are non nationals.
2500€ per acre for PRIME Building land..... 😳😳😳😳
Are those tv ariels on the chimneys ? BBC or RTÉ 🤔
You could get HTV (Welsh ITV) with an aerial. RTE you could get with rabbit ears (or with telly alone if it was a good one).
You could gerry rig an antenna to pick up the BBC. No law against it at the time but the UK introduced a law pertaining to piracy of the airwaves. Unenforceable but the BBC wanted the Irish to pay for it.
You vote Conservative party in Scotland politically in Glasgow City council elections yes it STV system 1234 they win councillors in scotland local elections in Scotland politically Thomas. Awesome. Excellent channel. It May 5th in England Scotland and Northern Ireland. Sinn fein won it.
Was the cigarette just a prop??
No. Different times.
Now it’s just demand lol
Almost certain those are Ballyfermot houses. Anyone recognise the road?
Upper Ballyfermot I would say. North side of Ballyfermot Road. Lower Ballyfermot was built next. Same houses but they skimped on the solid walls for the garden.
They built these all over Dubllin, Finglas Cabra Drimnagh , Crumlin
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 Sallynoggin and Marino aswell. The plans were used by all Councils and of course, Dublin Corporation. Over the years the plans changed and all areas got the new types of houses as they came out.
That looks like Marino
@@stuartkelly3106 Annadale
Looks like Mervue in Galway
Could be Shantalla too...same blueprint
@@EverGreen1888 Yes it could 👍
Now the supply its given to the Ukrainians 👍
We should balance it out by sending our bigots to Ukraine.
agree total 👍
@@garrybuicke1803
Not our concern, between them and Russia, priority of any government is to look after it's own citizens first
Why save hard to buy a house when you can get on a list wait and be given one of these paid for by your fellow citizens what a mentality ,chop your own wood it will heat you twice instead of always having your paw out.The sense of entitlement is pitiful.
It is social welfare and social housing that allowed Ireland to finally get off her knees after 800 years of violent oppression. It's not pity, it's compassion. And it works. It is the best thing we've ever done and the government should continue to build social housing instead of selling the property to foreign investors to rent out (tax-free) and extort 50/60% of tenants income.
And if the people themselves aren't entitled, then who is?
Yes, because every poor person has a forest in their back garden.
You can't grasp why you, yourself, might want to own your own house? Do you have any other problems comprehending your own wishes and desires