People Before Profit Cork After the launch of the Irish government’s “Rebuilding Ireland” programme, TV3’s “Tonight with Vincent Browne” on 19 July 2016 discussed the plan and the general issue of housing. One of the main points discussed was whether houses should be built by the state or by the private sector — and who…
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Cork Housing Crisis – Getting Worse, Not Better.
Cork City and County still suffering from government indifference to the critical situations of housing, homelessness, and precarious tenancies. The Housing Crisis in Ireland has spiraled to new heights and this government refuses to take any significant measures to address it. The profit before people theme running through all their policies continues to hammer ordinary…
#Right2Housing Activists Highlight Government Inaction on the Housing Crisis
Today the Right 2 Housing campaign displayed banners on empty properties around the country to highlight the need for a radical response to the housing crisis. With 100,000 families on the housing list across the country, and more than 620 families, including 1,300 children, homeless, we urgently need to tackle the housing crisis. As the number…
People Before Profit Cork Condemn Latest Suffocating Rent Hikes
Jim O’Connell, election candidate for the People Before Profit Alliance in Cork South Central, has this morning expressed disbelief at figures revealed by Daft.ie that show a 10.4% increase in Cork rent prices in 2015. According to Jim, “These figures are unbelievable. This is an unreasonable increase that shows more than ever the need to…
A Step Backwards for Social Housing Tenants?
Donal Guerin is a housing officer in Cork City Council. He is the chair of the Cork City section of the Cork Branch of IMPACT. In this blog post Donal outlines his concerns in relation to the Government’s Social Housing strategy, which was launched in November 2014
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