Unspoken Assumptions – Viability vs Liveability

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“Until we’ve done that, we don’t really have a choice about the way we live because the market is going to drive what gets built.”
Architect and Queen’s University Belfast Marie Curie doctoral fellow Shane Sugrue joins us for the first time on the Tortoise Shack to discuss his recent piece, Unspoken assumptions: the Minister, the Central Banker.
We dig into the problem of viability to examine how it shapes Irish housing policy, development finance and the homes that the system builds. Shane questions whether arguments over deregulation in planning and finance distract from land speculation, public subsidies, design quality and the need to create places people can actually live well.
Shane’s piece:https://theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/unspoken-assumptions-the-minister
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