More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
In this episode, we’re asking: why aren’t we building the right homes for people? To answer that question, we’ll have to talk about land.
In this episode: short-term lets and student accommodation, which aren’t the reasons for Dublin’s housing crisis, but do tell us a few things about its nature.
There’s more people renting now in Dublin than at any time in recent history, and they’re paying more for less. This episode looks at the city’s rental sector, and those squeezed into it.
If you’re sick of the finger-pointing, and drowning in the minutiae, join us as we take a deep breath and a step back and look at how we got here, what’s gone wrong, and where we’re going.