Articles related to student accommodation

“It’s shameful that a building of ours sits empty for four years,” a councillor said at a meeting of the council’s Central Area Committee on Tuesday.

In this episode: short-term lets and student accommodation, which aren’t the reasons for Dublin’s housing crisis, but do tell us a few things about its nature.

Opening a new social cafe in Ballyfermot, the controversial demolition of a house on O’Donovan Road, and the appropriateness of allowing more student housing in the Liberties were among the issues councillors discussed at a recent meeting.

Local residents are keeping a watchful eye over possible losses of green space in the Liberties.

It’s a smallish patch – but some local councillors say they’re against the idea as they grow more concerned about the lack of apartments and houses being built in the neighbourhood.

“I’m curious as to why this is happening … suddenly there’s a load of it. Is it EU grant led?” asks a reader.