We would like to talk to renters who have had to move when the government closed their homes for being overcrowded and/or substandard.
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.
Have you been affected? Or do you know people who have been affected? Get in touch. We will not publish any of your details without your permission.
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Please tell us where you were living and what has happened to you since.
The council's current pipeline shows about 11,000 new homes in the works from 2027 to 2030 so far, well short of the target of 19,400.
There are over 1,000 households on the council’s social housing lists for the area.
As the government courts more international money for Ireland’s rental sector, tenants say they want more transparency around who they are renting from.
The change would make it more costly to deliver cost-rental and affordable-purchase homes for middle-income earners in Dublin.
