Upcoming Events

Dublin | Housing

no events match your query!

New Events

Dublin

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link MPs Spared from Second Homes Council Tax Surcharge as Taxpayer Picks Up Bill Wed Apr 02, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
MPs will be spared from a new?council tax premium on second homes that they voted to permit,?leaving taxpayers picking up five-figure bills.
The post MPs Spared from Second Homes Council Tax Surcharge as Taxpayer Picks Up Bill appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BREAKING: Elon Musk Steps Down from DOGE Wed Apr 02, 2025 17:25 | Will Jones
President?Donald Trump?has told his Cabinet that?Elon Musk?is stepping back from his Government role of running DOGE to return to the business world in a move that sent Tesla's stock soaring.
The post BREAKING: Elon Musk Steps Down from DOGE appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Make Gas Boilers More Expensive to Boost Heat Pumps, Miliband Told by Energy Companies Wed Apr 02, 2025 16:00 | Will Jones
Energy suppliers have told Ed Miliband to increase the cost of gas boilers to boost the uptake of heat pumps and EVs ? because nothing says 'good product' like deliberately increasing the prices of competitors.
The post Make Gas Boilers More Expensive to Boost Heat Pumps, Miliband Told by Energy Companies appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How I Blew Grok?s Mind Wed Apr 02, 2025 14:03 | Andy A West
Andy West was stunned this week when Grok told him that reading his book The Grip of Culture had blown its mind. But despite the AI agreeing this should change everything, its replies to others remain bound by orthodoxy.
The post How I Blew Grok’s Mind appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour Drops to New Poll Low Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:46 | Will Jones
Support for Labour has dropped to a new low of 21% while the Conservatives lead on 26%, ahead of Reform on 25%. The cost of living was the top concern while climate change barely made the top 10. Time to sack Ed Miliband?
The post Labour Drops to New Poll Low appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

offsite link Western Europeans Deprived of Defense, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Mar 25, 2025 06:04 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?125 Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:48 | en

offsite link The London Virtual Summit for Ukraine Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:19 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Calls for OPW to reverse planned sell-off of residential land

category dublin | housing | press release author Tuesday October 23, 2018 22:05author by wp - Workers Party Report this post to the editors

Press Release - Workers Party Oct 2018

A Workers’ Party councillor has called on the OPW to reverse its decision to sell two residential sites which it owns in Dublin city. The sites are due to be auctioned by Lambert Smith Hampton on November 6th.
wp_logo_sm.jpg

Cllr. Éilis Ryan said:
“It is extraordinary that at the height of the housing crisis, we wake up to yet another story of the state selling off the family silver – when land for housing is so desperately needed.

“The two sites being sold on November 6th are small, but if kept in public hands, could be used for infill step-down accommodation for older people, freeing up public housing units, something which all agree is badly needed. Why has this option not been considered?”


The councillor continued:
“Just last June, Dublin City Council passed a motion calling on the Minister to direct the OPW to hand residential land over to Dublin City Council for development. I would like to know, did the council management deal with this motion with urgency? And why, if so, did the Minister choose to ignore it, and allow yet another land sale instead?

“In tackling the housing crisis, the key asset which the state has to work with is the land it owns. Once this is gone, any possible solution will be doubly difficult to achieve.”


Cllr. Ryan concluded by saying:
“I am calling on the Minister to intervene and ensure the OPW halts this proposed auction – and any further sale of public land in the Dublin area. Neither Glasnevin nor Ballsbridge are in need of yet another luxury penthouse development. Public housing is what’s needed, and only the state can deliver that.”

**************************************************************************
See also :

681 public housing units lost due to Kilcarbery land sell-off
Press Release - 8th Oct 2018

David Gardiner, Workers’ Party representative for Lucan, has criticised Fianna Fáil and Labour councillors on South Dublin County Council for voting with Fine Gael to sell-off public land in Kilcarbery, and has called for publicly-owned land to be used for public housing.

“It’s clear that Fianna Fáil and Labour jumped on the bandwagon last week by supporting the Raise The Roof rally for the sake of publicity,” said Gardiner. “And yet here we see councillors from both parties voting to sell-off public land to private developers. I believe this site should be kept in the ownership of the council to build public housing.”

“When the time comes for a photo opportunity or a sound bite, Fianna Fáil and Labour are all for ending this crisis, but when they can actually make a difference by voting to keep public land, they come up short of it.”

Gardiner continued:

“There are roughly 8,000 people on the waiting list in South Dublin. Alongside that, the vast majority of people not on the list are also not able to afford to buy private housing. The Workers’ Party calls for public housing, with rent based on income, to be built on this site and others owned by the state. This would address the needs of both those on the waiting list, and those who aren’t on the list but can’t afford to buy.”

Gardiner concluded:

“So-called affordable housing isn’t the solution to this crisis. By Fine Gael’s definition, you’d have to earn double the average household income to be able to purchase “affordable housing.”

“We need to stop the sell-off of public land, and to make public housing available to all of those who need it and want it.”

Src: http://workersparty.ie/681-public-housing-units-lost-due-to-kilca...-off/

Related Link: http://workersparty.ie/calls-for-opw-to-reverse-planned-sell-off-of-residential-land/
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy