Nobody caught illegally dumping yet by new north inner-city CCTV
But the scheme is a success, said a council official's report, as that shows the cameras are a deterrent.
It’s one of two prominent sites in Dolphins Barn that the Iveagh Trust has been prepping to build out.
The council’s draft 2026 budget proposed increasing rents from 12 percent of a tenant’s income to 17 percent – in the end, councillors went with 14.5 percent.
“I think in some cases it could be more than half their income. I don’t see how the sums will add up.”
But Mick Mulhern, the council’s housing manager, says it just isn’t always possible or practical to do that.
No decision has been made on whether that will happen, a Dublin City Council spokesperson has said. But it hasn’t been ruled out.
The project would retrofit the existing building, and add extensions, to increase the number of homes from 38 to 53.
“It was a slow start, but I think the ship is moving,” said council housing manager, Mick Mulhern, at a housing committee meeting.
Many of the social housing projects paused recently were on vacant sites but this one is different, says a local councillor.
“Homes not Hazards” is set for Tailors’ Hall in the Liberties on 28 June.
As many as 1,325 social homes in Dublin city are at an advanced stage, with planning granted – but now with no clear funding.
Councillors said that they feel the city was just used as the backdrop for a pre-election PR campaign.
Across the city, tenants in older flats confront the stark difference between their conditions and those likely in new cost-rental homes.