Category: Housing
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Renters thrown to the vultures with new housing bill
Continuing to fall far behind housing completion figures promised in the programme for government, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have doubled down on sacrificing renters at the altar of multinational investment funds. A bill enacted on the first of March allows new tenancies to start at the highest market price. Afterwards, rents can be increased…
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Houses decay from disuse while homelessness rises
Despite huge demand for decent homes in Cork, ten houses in Carrignavar have been abandoned for fifteen years, even though they are nearly finished. All they are waiting for is to be connected to the sewage network. Instead they have been withering away in a village where people are “crying out for homes”. New housing…