Seán Keyes @quays - Bluesky Profile

Why new apartment standards won't mean housing more people Half of the households in Ireland have children, yet there is no plan for where, and how, the next generations will live

Ireland has ~1.5 million homes suitable for families. Ireland is very unlikely to ever have more than 0.8m families (with kids under 18).
Unbelievable that anyone paying attention to the housing crisis could have missed that the crisis is/will be for 1-2 person households.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

12.09.2025 09:43 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

How does Bluesky feel about this one. Today An Coimisiún Pleanála upheld Fingal CC’s decision to bar DAA from demolishing disused old ramps. It said demolishing the old ramps “would diminish the visual amenity on approach to T1”

23.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

🏙️ What if your street could vote on its own planning rules — like in Seoul & Tel Aviv — and share the value when development happens?

Seán Keyes’s taboo idea for Ireland: hyper-local planning, where neighbours decide and benefit from building higher.
@quays.bsky.social

18.07.2025 14:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Sharp Tech Sharp Tech - How technology works, and the ways it is impacting the world

🚁 "This is a tech business, not a logistics business." – Ben Thompson

Manna’s drone delivery model isn’t about moving goods—it’s about zero marginal cost at scale.

It’s not just new logistics—it’s a tech disruption.

🎧 Listen: sharptech.fm/member/episo...

03.03.2025 10:22 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Let's do it

03.03.2025 21:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey Tony! But what if they're actually good? Happy to call down to the shack any time

03.03.2025 21:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

... but you have to build. pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk0S-K...

28.02.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The rental market can turn quite quickly... pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk0PKC...

28.02.2025 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The saddest graph. Wages minus rents for college educated and non college educated workers in the US, over time. It shows low-skilled workers have been the losers from housing shortages

02.12.2024 09:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘We love these buildings’: Should developers get to build six stories anywhere in Cambridge? - The Boston Globe Housing advocates say simpler zoning would pave the way for more homes and generate more affordable housing. But others say unregulated development would only make things worse.

It's pretty remarkable just how much the politics around zoning have shifted over the past decade—college towns like Berkeley and Cambridge were once the epicenter of NIMBYism. Now they're in a neck-and-neck competition to liberalize and build. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/21/b...

28.11.2024 09:41 — 👍 87 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

This is a cool and also good-looking book @joemcreynolds.bsky.social

27.11.2024 07:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This strange graph says LA style freeways and sprawl are a MORE efficient way to move people around a city than rail, for commutes less than about 50 mins

26.11.2024 19:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0