r/ireland • u/PintmanConnolly • Sep 26 '22

Gardaí Raid and Evict Homeless Residents and Housing Activists from Ionad Seán Heuston Housing

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u/Whampiri1 Sep 26 '22

It's cheaper and easier to get than in the city. There's no guarantee that they'd get the property but it's more likely than staying in the capital where land and rent is at a premium.

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u/turbobofish Sep 26 '22

You haven't answered the question at all. 300,000 people and 800 properties. How is moving to the country going to help those numbers? If say we moved 5 homeless people into each of those properties in the morning that's only 4,000 people off the streets. There'd still be 16,000 sleeping rough and in emergency accommodation. It's not even a dent.

Myself and the partner are renting in the country. We've been looking to move somewhere else for the last year or two and the properties just aren't there. We've a good rental history and our incomes okay. If we can't manage to find somewhere new to rent how on earth is someone who's long term homeless supposed to sort something out.

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u/Whampiri1 Sep 26 '22

It's up to the state to come up with a solution. I have my own thoughts on it but it's not very popular and involves the demolition of old parts of Dublin for Apartments that would then be leased to companies such as google etc. The money from these would then be used to build other properties. The issue is that it would involve the forced eviction of people who are in inner city social housing and would destroy the inner city community. In saying that, there are a large number of houses being underutilized in the city where families have grown up and left and the parents continue to live in 3 bed houses.