What a national embarrassment that international media are starting to shine a spotlight on this.
>They found some 700 empty properties within about a mile of downtown.
700 empty residential buildings in the heart of Cork City. Who is accountable for this?
>All are in the tens of thousands. The 2022 census recorded well over 100,000: long-abandoned rural cottages; empty apartments in city-center blocks or above shuttered shops in regional towns; fading Georgian townhouses in the center of once-prospering rural villages; and “ghost estates,” housing developments that were being built at the time of the financial crash in 2008 and were never completed.
Over 100,000 vacant residential properties – more than enough to end the housing crisis.
It’s so sad to see the dereliction. If we fixed up all the derelict houses and got rid of individual property rights, we could easily house a few months worth of migrants.❤️
stbrigidiscross on
People really need to do more about dereliction. In Youghal some members of the community got together to pressure the council about the many derelict buildings and the council actually put them on the derelict building register and stuck notices with maps of the properties on the doors. Loads of these derelict buildings are for sale now to try and avoid accruing more financial penalties. I don’t know if any are in sufficient shape to be easily made habitable but it’s a start.
It’s ridiculous that residents had to basically shame the council into acting, they should be declaring buildings derelict and collecting appropriate fines as a matter of course.
RogerFederer4 on
“Durr durr this doesn’t effect me I’m voting for ff fg” – average over 40 middle class Irish person
WraithsOnWings2023 on
Has anyone told the NYT that dereliction can’t be tackled overnight?
MidnightSun77 on
Cork could very easily convert Youghal into a commuter town if they extended the railway out there.
Commercial-Ranger339 on
Copy paste housing
boardsmember2017 on
We’re so quick to convert derelict paint factories into accommodation, why aren’t we pushing for other derelict properties to be brought up to code. This along with repurposing of office blocks could offer accommodation to those so badly in need of homes
NowForYa on
Monday’s bad enough without being slagged by yanks. The same fools voted in Trump as president and let him run again. Sort out ye’re own gaf, clowns.
Illustrious_Dog_4667 on
CPO on all derelict housing units empty for 3 years. That’s the first step.
*”Compulsory purchase usually happens to allow a public infrastructure project to go ahead for the common good.”*
![New York Times: Housing in Ireland Is Broken [Cork & Dublin now rank very high as two of the most derelict cities in the world]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ug2helA4GlP-23wtidmhf9VVtQb8hhzvBvj6DQcezmc-1024x536.jpg "New York Times: Housing in Ireland Is Broken [Cork & Dublin now rank very high as two of the most derelict cities in the world]")
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What a national embarrassment that international media are starting to shine a spotlight on this.
>They found some 700 empty properties within about a mile of downtown.
700 empty residential buildings in the heart of Cork City. Who is accountable for this?
>All are in the tens of thousands. The 2022 census recorded well over 100,000: long-abandoned rural cottages; empty apartments in city-center blocks or above shuttered shops in regional towns; fading Georgian townhouses in the center of once-prospering rural villages; and “ghost estates,” housing developments that were being built at the time of the financial crash in 2008 and were never completed.
Over 100,000 vacant residential properties – more than enough to end the housing crisis.
Ah sure its grand
We should vote FF/FG back in /s
Should be free to read at this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion/ireland-housing-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU4.BwQv.sVRlr_2Udeae&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
It’s so sad to see the dereliction. If we fixed up all the derelict houses and got rid of individual property rights, we could easily house a few months worth of migrants.❤️
People really need to do more about dereliction. In Youghal some members of the community got together to pressure the council about the many derelict buildings and the council actually put them on the derelict building register and stuck notices with maps of the properties on the doors. Loads of these derelict buildings are for sale now to try and avoid accruing more financial penalties. I don’t know if any are in sufficient shape to be easily made habitable but it’s a start.
It’s ridiculous that residents had to basically shame the council into acting, they should be declaring buildings derelict and collecting appropriate fines as a matter of course.
“Durr durr this doesn’t effect me I’m voting for ff fg” – average over 40 middle class Irish person
Has anyone told the NYT that dereliction can’t be tackled overnight?
Cork could very easily convert Youghal into a commuter town if they extended the railway out there.
Copy paste housing
We’re so quick to convert derelict paint factories into accommodation, why aren’t we pushing for other derelict properties to be brought up to code. This along with repurposing of office blocks could offer accommodation to those so badly in need of homes
Monday’s bad enough without being slagged by yanks. The same fools voted in Trump as president and let him run again. Sort out ye’re own gaf, clowns.
CPO on all derelict housing units empty for 3 years. That’s the first step.
*”Compulsory purchase usually happens to allow a public infrastructure project to go ahead for the common good.”*
For the FFFGGB fan boys [https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/losing-your-home-and-homelessness/compulsory-purchase-of-property/](https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/losing-your-home-and-homelessness/compulsory-purchase-of-property/)
“FF and FG set to sweep general election for second coalition”
You may see dereliction, but in Dublin a councillor will see a historic building which must never be redeveloped.