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.
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Vacancy Watch: The site in front of the National Centre for the Circular Economy in Ballymun
Surrounded by hoardings, “this site seriously detracts from the centre and from the main street of Ballymun”, says Fianna Fáil Councillor Keith Connolly.
Council officials present plans to retrofit flat complexes in south inner-city
At a recent meeting, they detailed plans to modernise Glovers Court, and part of Pearse House, without tearing them down.
Tenants in poor conditions across the city complain about the same property manager
They’ve pleaded for Martin Property Consultants to deal properly with leaking sewage, mould, cracked walls, and dripping ceilings.
Dublin tech company appeals council’s refusal to let it install sleeping pods in its city-centre office building
Councillors say what’s needed in the city is more affordable housing, not sleeping pods in offices.
Renter quoted €2,850 a month for studio in Rathmines co-living
In January 2023, Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien said he’d look at bringing co-living under rent-pressure-zone rules.
Coliving in Rathmines, pitched as part of solution to housing crisis, is being used for tourists
“A planning enforcement file will be opened and investigations will be carried out,” a council spokesperson says.
Did the CSO underestimate the number of illegally unregistered tenancies?
It suggested that a major chunk of unregistered tenancies are possibly ”informal” and don’t have to be registered. Does that bear out?
Vacancy Watch: The old Ardee House pub near Newmarket
Owned, via a company, by Teeling Whiskey Company founder Jack Teeling, it’s been sitting empty for years. “It’s an awful waste,” says a local councillor.
To help councils build social housing faster, get Department of Housing out of their way, Housing Commission report says
Responsibility for approving funding should be shifted from the Department of Housing to the Housing Agency and streamlined, the commission’s report says.
Each year since it got powers to look into breaches of rental laws, the RTB has launched fewer and fewer formal investigations
The number of investigations isn’t in itself a measure of its success as a regulator, said its deputy director earlier this month.
Council in talks with LDA on building housing on part of Ballymun Shopping Centre site
But it is still early days.
In Fingal, the journey to the top of the social-housing list is painfully slow
Homeless since 2021, Michael Conway was granted medical priority last September and shot up the list. But nine months later he still hasn’t reached the top.