Seán Keyes
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Executive director of @progressireland
Dublin via London via Limerick
Joined March 2008
RT @MacGillSchool: 📢 Day 2 Highlights!.#MacGill25. @NotreDame @ClaireHanna @ivanabacik @higginsdavidw @RuadhanIT @rossafanning @dkennytcd @….
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The Californians saw sense over mandatory environmental reviews.
This is a really good plain language of what CEQA is, how it went off the rails, and how it was reformed for the better.
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RT @MacGillSchool: Now underway at #MacGill25: Taboo Ideas to Transform Ireland? .What are we afraid to talk about — and why?. 🎙️ Hosted by….
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Offered unspeakable ideas at MacGill 🌚.
@Keyes debate between roads and trains. Basic idea add tunnels to the mix. Then build around the nodes
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RT @MacGillSchool: 🏙️ What if your street could vote on its own planning rules — like in Seoul & Tel Aviv — and share the value when develo….
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Copenhagen is delightful but Shenzen is at the centre of a new megacity of 87m people that’s remaking the world. These places are not the same.
What do you notice that’s different about Copenhagen, officially the “most livable city in the world,” and Shenzen, maybe the most hyped city online ????
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Congratulations to @o_mcpartlin.and @Sam__Enright, who were selected for the.@rootsofprogress writing fellowship: "up-and-coming intellectual entrepreneurs for progress".
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RT @arpitrage: Very interesting paper — people prefer subsidizing demand to supply because they relate better to recipients of demand subsi….
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If we don’t bring rents down it’s all for nothing.
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In around ten years small modular reactors will be rolling off production lines. Ireland should be ready for them.
The Government has approved the final steps for Ireland to become an associate member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research
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How to make a big dent in the housing shortage, in 25 small manageable steps.
New @ProgressIreland paper out today!. Ireland can close its 300k-home gap but only if we tackle the three problems simultaneously:. Cut construction costs, free up land supply, and speed up planning👇
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Preach.
"I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build." @BarackObama .
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RT @SCP_Hughes: Canary Wharf. The commercial buildings are much the same as ever, but some of the residential architecture is improving dra….
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A common objection to the decision to lower apartment standards / construction costs is that it will push up land prices. But that’s wrong-headed. It puts the cart before the horse.
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On a like for like basis (ie, identical quality), Irish construction costs are not higher than Europe. The difference in cost comes differences in quality and size. And the difference is huge -- final costs are about 33% more than peers Utrecht, Copenhagen and Berlin.
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The alternative to (lower standards+cheaper apartments+more plentiful apartments) isn't (high standards+cheap apartments+plentiful apartments). It's four to six singles cramming into a 120sqm family home. That's our Irish solution to our Irish problem.
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That's why the government is making these changes. It's bringing minimum quality standards closer to European peers, so apartments will be cheaper to build, which will make them more affordable to buyers, which will result in more of them being built, which will lower prices.
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On a like for like basis (ie, identical quality), Irish construction costs are not higher than Europe. The difference in cost comes differences in quality and size. And the difference is huge -- final costs are about 33% more than peers Utrecht, Copenhagen and Berlin.
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"Other countries do it, why can't we?" The answer is that new Irish apartments are bigger and higher quality than new apartments in Europe.
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