Yesterday.
Apollo House, Tara Street, Dublin.
Home Sweet Home Volunteers, including Robbie ‘the rogue plumber’ (pic 2) and Sandra Earley (pic 3), have transformed the office building into bedrooms, social areas, kitchens, store rooms and a kennel for the resident dog. The High Court has ruled the occupation end on January 11.
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Driving the blushirts mad, by shining a light on their war against the poor and the week of this nation. Fair play.
Why are they still wasting time/energy/resources on making changes to Apollo house that will be wasted in 7 days time when they have to leave?
yes, any resources used to improve the life of the poor is seen as a waste by you and your ilk..
Yes because thats exactly what was said in that comment.
More or less, or at least betrays a fundamental lack of understanding that when you’re homeless everything is temporary, so you make the best of what you can when you can. Seven days might be a big deal if most other days you don’t know if you’ll have somewhere safe to sleep at night.
That’s quite naïve. Homeless charities operate on the long term, not for a few weeks until the celebrity endorsements and volunteers drop off. I think any proper measure would regard Apollo House as a waste of limited resources – enormous effort for a few weeks for 30-40 people given the enormity of the housing problem in Ireland. I’m not being callous – its just the realities of managing major problems with limited means.
The operate on the long-term because homelessness is a long-term problem which has reached a current state of ongoing crisis stretching existing services beyond breaking point, rendering nearly all efforts on the ground short-term, ad hoc and chaotic. What’s bewildering is that people would criticise these efforts as short-term. Of course they’re short-term. it’s all short term until the government gets their act together. The reality is that 30 or 40 people in shelter for a few weeks is a real achievement. Criticising the people on the ground because their measures are short-term is just missing the wood for the trees.
They’ll not be leaving Cian. #occupyapollo
I wish I was as blinkered as you. Must be nice. Just pick a side and plough through till death. Keep going, that will teach the parents.
Saves on the limited brain power, I’d imagine.
Serious question: what will happen to the people sheltered there on the 11th?
The HSH people told them that they would end homelessness for good.
“The HSH people told them that they would end homelessness for good.”
you got a source on that??
In any event ending homelessness for good, seems like a worthy cause, better than vigorously fighting for Apples tax scams in the EU courts, eh?
“The HSH people told them that they would end homelessness for good.” ….did they?
“The HSH people told them that they would end homelessness for good”
They never said that and you know it. So less of the cynical misinformation.
wouldn’t expect anything else but lies coming from merrion square
HSH Video, at 44 seconds in, talking with a lady named Philomena.
http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/celebrities-join-concerned-citizens-home-12329795
” You won’t be homeless for long love, we’re going to end it”
So here’s the thing, a homeless woman was told that she would not be homeless, that they would end it.
Assuming she’s in Apollo House, what happens to her on Jan 11?
I expect on Jan 11th the volunteers on the front lines and the activists will continue to work hard to try and keep her and everyone else in some sort of safe and secure accommodation while continuing to try and shame the government into action. You seem to be expressing disdain for an expression of hope and optimism, which must be stamped out wherever it’s found, apparently.
Hi I’m Nigel I swallowed a dictionary sideways
Why, you rapscallion purloiner of patronymics to which you are unentitled! Confounded incompetent online impersonator! Insecure jackanapes! Etc.
Makes no sense, perhaps the dictionary went sideways up the other end, muppet either way
I would speculate that your incomprehension springs from a surfeit of ignorance which you attempt to conceal through the repeated utilisation of transparent rhetorical ploys in a vain effort to appeal to fellow anti-intellectuals. Alternatively you have a severe allergy to vocabulary, a startlingly profound insufficiency of good humour, and a sadly misdirected passion for trivial and pointless vendettas.
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Like a glottal inhibition
Bloody hell, I’m not expressing disdain for hope.
I’m asking what will happen to the people who are sheltering in the building.
We’re not allowed to ask questions about this action now?
Well perhaps you’re coming to appreciate the level of uncertainty homeless people and the volunteers and services who try to help them live with every day. They might not answer because they’re too busy trying to find answers themselves.
Is there any videos in Bluesh1te HQ where Enda says everyone will pay water charges?
The previous Government committed to end long term homelessness by December 2016.
How’s that working out?
Make sure you sign the petition.
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/sign-the-open-letter-use-nama-to-end-homelessness
“In summary, the letter states:
1. The building known as Apollo House, in Dublin city centre, has been occupied by HSH as a last resort to provide safe and secure accommodation for people sleeping rough on the streets.
2. The receivers acting for NAMA obtained a court injunction to force all the occupants of Apollo House to vacate it by noon on 11th January 2017.
3. Whilst the receivers contend that there are enough adequate beds for rough sleepers in Dublin, Fr. Peter McVerry states otherwise on affidavit, and the most recent government statistics (released on 30th December 2016) confirm that homelessness is increasing.
4. Under section 14 of the NAMA Act, the Minister for Finance is empowered to direct NAMA to make properties under its control available “to contribute to the social and economic development of the State”.
Ireland has obligations under European and international law to provide social housing and to work towards the elimination of homelessness.
5. NAMA has ample housing stock currently under its control which can be made available, through various mechanisms, to individuals and families who are currently homeless or under threat of being made homeless.
6. NAMA is planning to build 20,000 homes in the next three years but only 10% of these will be made available for social housing despite the worst housing crisis in the history of the State.
NAMA is focused on returning a profit to the exchequer at some point in the future as a priority above tacking the homelessness crisis.
7. The Minister for Finance must act now to compel NAMA to take immediate and effective steps to combat the homelessness crisis.
Please support Home Sweet Home’s initiative to force the government to end homelessness in Ireland by signing this letter.
You can read the full letter here: http://tinyurl.com/h7zdsvl“
Great paper below on why we have a social housing shortage.
As ever, the reasons are complex and aren’t are simple as FG, the elites, RTEs fault.
In fact if you want to blame anybody it’s FF of 1977!!! :)
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2016/12/24/funding-social-housing-through-bust-boom-and-bust/
Dog= only winner here