As the government blocks funding for major social-housing projects, FF and FG councillors point fingers at ministers
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
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We would like to talk to renters who have had to move when the government closed their homes for being overcrowded and/or substandard.
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Brendan Kenny had a simple response to Dublin City Councillors who asked where people who had been living in overcrowded and dangerous premises in the city had moved on to, after those places were shut down.
“The simple answer to that is, we don’t know. We don’t know where people have gone to,” said the council’s head of housing.
We would like to talk to renters who have had to move when the government closed their homes for being overcrowded and/or substandard.
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