Last night.
The Inner City Helping Homeless outreach team counted 76 rough sleepers in Dublin – 63 men and 13 women.
Meanwhile, this morning, Olivia Kelly in The Irish Times reports:
Modular homes, originally intended to provide short-term accommodation for homeless families living in hotels, are to be used as permanent housing for applicants on Dublin City Council’s housing waiting list.
The council in November announced plans to build modular or “stackable” apartments at two sites in the city. The 70 apartments are expected to cost €15 million.
The smaller of the two sites, a vacant plot on Fishamble Street near Christ Church Cathedral, will have four to eight apartments at a cost of €1.5 million to €1.8 million. This will be used to accommodate homeless families living in emergency accommodation.
However, the council has decided the second site, a €13.5 scheme of 62 apartments at Bunratty Road in Coolock, will be used to accommodate people on the council’s general housing waiting list. The list currently stands at some 20,000 applicants.
Modular homes to be used in Dublin as permanent housing (Irish Times)
Inner City Helping Homeless (Facebook)
You’ll note that “waking the feminists” are quite content to let their unfortunate sisters sleep in the streets.
Indeed. One is forced to wonder aloud while stroking one’s chin contemplatively and raising a single eyebrow in an archly ironic manner why ‘Waking the feminists’ have not tackled the widespread and deep-rooted reform of the property sector and the planning process and the various issues around development and financing that is ultimately the only way to achieve a proper solution to the homeless crisis, along with related issues such as swingeing rental costs and a burgeoning property bubble. Waking the feminists’ must be made to answer the troubling question of why they, as a group of people involved in the world of theater, haven’t already embarked on this ambitious program of reform. Well said, Eamonn. Well said.
+1
+1 Nigel
Brilliantly put.
I hope Eamonn’s suitably embarassed at posting something so laughably stupid.
Eamonn is too blinded by his hatred of women to be embarrassed. He comes across as the type who can’t even pay women to have sex with him.
Can’t pay won’t lay
Nice one :-)
Which side are you on Apey Molly? Stop trying so hard to be cool and with it by chuckling at Nigel.
We all see through your psychotic facade
Which side? Think you look at the world like a school playground T.
Nigel wrote a good post, the sentiment of which I agreed with. Simples.
Why are you sad T?
I thought it was the usual hysterical and over emotive hyperbole from Nigel and admit it – so did you. There just happened to be a few big words in there which confused you and your sycophantic self thought ooh other people are clapping I won’t look cool if I don’t
Bravo Nigel.
Nice one, Nige
The 70 apartments are expected to cost €15 million.
15,000,000 / 70 = c. €214,000
How does a temporary, short-term apartment cost so much?
nobody in the dail has any clue what things cost for the rest of the country. being taken for a ride by construction pals.
‘Don’t go taking us for a ride now, construction pals,’ they said, winking broadly enough to pop an eyeball.
LOL! This sent me chuckling into my soup.
What kind of soup?
It was red bean soup….WHY?
I need to know
I’m sure your expenses will cover it.
We all get expenses, right?
Modular homes are just an alternate build method. They are fabricated off-site & assembled once delivered.
They meet the same specs and are as permanent as any regular build.
You would think that there would be some reduction of construction costs with economies of scale kicking in; €214K seems per unit seems a bit pricey to me…
you still have to factor in ground works, electricity, water, sewerage. that’s the real kicker in any new build.
Modular homes are, in and of themselves, awesome and the way of the future if anyone here is interested in innovations that are common practice in other parts of Europe. The modular nature of the homes, assuming they are up to some sort of standards, assuming building standards in this country are not still a sick joke haha, should not be the problem with this project.
“The smaller of the two sites, a vacant plot on Fishamble Street near Christ Church Cathedral, will have four to eight apartments at a cost of €1.5 million to €1.8 million. ”
lads, this is mad money for 4 (to 8) apartments!
The council have been trying to get someone to do something with that site for ages.
A 2 bed wood log house you can get for under 20k (http://loghouse.ie/products/special-offer-two-bed-log-cabin-6×75.html)
They need to start building in Ireland – Primarily for the homeless crisis but also if they want to attract foreign companies.
Plus an extra 10-20 for plumbing, electrical, kitchen, bathroom etc.
And the cost of a site in Dublin.
I think they should be building apartments in Dublin and houses on the outer suburbs.
Im not a urban developer but this approach would make sense to me!
Great, more caravans.
Oh sorry portacabins, they’re bigger than caravans.
I heard you can accomodate up to 3 cats in some of them