For a start, it shouldn’t allow for up to 15 storeys over the road from the bungalows of Labre Park, says the coordinator of Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project.
There have been government interventions. But work on vacant homes has been muddled because vacancy is far more complicated than our current understanding captures.
Instead of producing housing where need is greatest, our housing system is producing – by a multiple of three – development on the periphery of settlements.
One aim of the rules is “dampening the pro-cyclicality of credit and house prices so a damaging credit-house price spiral does not emerge”, said a Central Bank spokesperson.
A Dublin City Council spokesperson said inspections will return to past levels once public health advice allows. Two politicians say the entire system for improving standards needs overhaul.
The cost for those reliant on Housing Assistance Payment has gone up in many cases, pushing tenants into debt and poverty as they struggle to cover “top-ups” to landlords and scrape together deposits.
Since last February, councillors in a cross-party working group have met, to thrash out what a new model for public housing for the city should look like.
In April, the developers behind luxury apartments One Springfield Park went into receivership. In recent weeks the funder for the project, Cullaun Capital, closed up too.
