Further to reports of a tenant and a number of housing activists having been forcibly removed from 52, Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1 (above) on Sunday, January 28, by landlord Paul Howard [not of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly fame] and a number of men…
Sham Fynan writes:
Dublin Digital Radio have launched their new podcast Current. Current will be a new weekly podcast covering a range of social, political and cultural issues.
Our first episode features a representative from Dublin Central Housing Action talking about their role in the Paul Howard saga and what’s next for tenants. We reckon it’s something that your listeners will enjoy.
Dublin Digital Radio (Facebook)
Related: Dublin tenants report alleged eviction assaults to gardaí (Kitty Holland, The Irish Times)
Injunctions continued against Dublin property owners (Aodhan O’Faolain, The Irish Times)
Mr. Howard needs to be put out of the landlord business.
he’s simply a by-product off the dismal and abject failure off this govt to provide housing-what ya gonna do ban him from owning property?
Howard is no different from the various parasites involved in the property business, like the banks and the vulture funds ect. He just lacks finesse is all.
A small percentage of landlords are completely awful, and should not be allowed to rent homes.
What is needed, in my mind, is a better monitoring of the current standards, and enforcement of these – either directly through fines and/or preventing the slums from being rented until they are up to standard.
What we will probably get is more legislation and higher minimum standards… that will be ignored by the Paul Howards of this world.
Kitty Holland had a lede in the awful Irish Times,stating that he was going get arrested,deliberately creating the false impression that their are sufficent laws and the political will to address this.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/dublin-landlord-may-be-arrested-after-forced-eviction-1.3371707
Its very easy to solve. Minimum people allowed per x% of feet per dwelling. Any landlord that breaks this rule and is proven to have broke it must pay the full Years rent amount to the tenants plus what they’ve already paid given back to them. He landlord refuses then compulsory take over of the property. Now I know that seems a ridiculous idea but how many would still do this type of thing of those consequences could happen
Great, another podcast focusing on ‘social issues’
Can’t wait!
get out of his building, its not yours. Why do you think you can illegally occupy this mans property.
They pay rent. There are laws.
I understand some of this mans properties are in receivership Eric