In the north inner-city, tenants of 15 years evicted so council can buy their home
Dublin City Council is buying 40 homes in the Northbank apartments. It is not clear how many tenants have been evicted for the deal to proceed.
Its target for new social homes in 2023 is 1,931. It currently has 362 new social homes due to be finished that year, shows a council report.
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their January monthly meeting on Monday.
“We all have to tackle this journey,” says Joe Donnelly. “Now is the time to get on board.”
The move is based on research predicting a falling share of one-person households in the Liberties and the north inner-city.
Councillors are divided about whether the council should have allowed a developer to close off most of the public square for up to two years, in a part of the city with few open spaces.
The council intends to carry out a wider culling of street clutter too, according to the new draft city development plan. But the last plan said that too.
There’s a plan to transform a large old council depot into an enterprise centre with mentoring and training for unemployed people and social entrepreneurs.
The Model Railway Society of Ireland is looking for a new headquarters, as it is set to be displaced by a council plan to build 163 new homes.
The Residential Tenancies Board has published the names of landlords it has fined or cautioned for breaking laws governing rental homes, including Propmaster Ventures.
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their housing committee.
And the figures could be an undercount, depending on who is counted and who is left out.
People living in long-term hostels run by homeless charities are not counted as homeless under the current methodology.