The boy and his family were getting fed by The Homeless Cafe. I imagine they were probably hungry.
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Can you state the full & accurate circumstances before shooting your load?
Sean Mulryan is trying to build 741 build to rent apartments on top of a train station located in a ghetto. Thatâs going to do nothing to ease any housing crisis at all.
Itâs not complicated - any housing, fancy or not, will help alleviate the crisis because the rental price at the margin will decrease.
FWIW that photo is shocking and a reminder of the stories/lives behind the statistics
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Itâs beside a train station.
What do you think 740 apartments will do to prices? How about the 10% thatâs social housing?
Do you fancy leaving Sheriff Street the way it is?
And @Mac do you not realize that centralized dense construction on transport nodes is a planners dream?
Itâs great thatâs CIĂ are finally releasing more of their lands for construction - notwithstanding that the money will end up just filling a pensions hole.
Mac is a landlord Afaik. He must be a bit worried that professionals are finally coming into the Irish market.
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Connolly station already canât handle the crowds that pass through it so while it might be a planners dream in terms of proximity to it, itâs fuck all use if the rail infrastructure close to it is still in the 1800s.
Timâs point was that property prices are stabilising. 741 rental apartments are of no benefit to this in my opinion. Itâs just adding more overpriced apartments into a poor location, again bypassing most planning regulations through the fast track process. Most apartments built in this way in the last 20 years have had had fire safety or water ingress issues due to developers cutting corners and inept fire safety officers.
My standing as a landlord has no bearing on this. Dublin needs more accommodation but not high rise rental apartments built on an infrastructure that wonât be able to handle the volume of people it will add to the area.
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Horrible comment. We could discuss exactly who the real âhomelessness industryâ is but Tim wouldnât enjoy it.
Whatever happened to Facebookâs plan to take over one of Johnny Ronanâs new blocks in the docklands?
I was hearing how Ronan was supposed to allocate a certain percentage of that block to social housing, 20% I think, but the government allowed him to somehow buy his was out of that commitment.
Tim is very well informed about all this and will be able to explain how these policies are working well.
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âPoor locationâ
Itâs right beside the CBD you clown. Youâre defeating your own argument going on about crowds. It it is so crowded then how the heck is it a poor location?
This is in addition to the hundreds of other apartments and dense builds happening up over the North Dockands to East Wall. The whole area is being transformed.
You really are a gormless simpleton at times.
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Facebook are going to the old AIB building in BallsbridgeâŚ
How is that a âhorrible commentâ? Have you looked at the headcount and money put into these charities?
I just want us to aspire to be better bro. Thatâs all.
Its so close to the city centre will it affect connolly that much? Surely its walking distance to amenities and work. High rise apartments are the way of the future.
These quid pro quo* deals are happening around the city when developers are building new apartment complexes. Developers are getting around the requirement to set aside 10% (or whatever required % it is) of the apartments in the new developments for social housing by striking side deals with the council.
They donât want the salubrious new builds âcontaminatedâ by having council tenants so they sayâŚsure lookit weâll give you this older building we already own and you can use it for social housing or weâll buy this other building for you.
One of the aims of the 10% rule was to allow for integration / mixing but skirting around that to instead stick council tenants together into their own separate buildings has the potential to cause ghetto situations.
I was forced out of my rented Dublin 4 penthouse for this very reason. I was the hidden homeless.
*possibly used in wrong context and/or spelt incorrectly.
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This is confusing for Mac.
The docklands is going to be a city within a city, itâs bollocks.
Whatâs your point here? Where should we build?
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massive housing estates 25 mile outside the city with minimal facilities of course, no to high rise, no to progress, not in my area!
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Actually, on the city within a city point, I remember randomly going to a brilliant wave one night up in an Air BNB in Shankill. The whole thing had been organised by European people working for either Facebook or Google, including all the drugs. Organising raves was a little side business a few of them started and you should go if you ever get the chance and you want to stay out until 8am.
Anyhow it was full or European Facebook people talking to each other . And I just realised that these folks are like an elite in our city that the rest of us never see. They come in, they get unreal money, they get the best apartments and everything that they want and they just hang out with each other and never need to integrate or make Irish friends. Facebook is their whole life.
And what do the rest of us get out of it? Fuck all corporation tax and higher house prices. Got a cool rave that night though and they were a nice enough bunch.
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We should avoid ghetto-ization of poor people and integrate the wealthy Europeans better and have some sense of community. We could encourage this by stopping these quid pro quo deals with councils.
Iâm actually pro high rise, I agree that there should be a lot more of it.