Activists opening up boarded up homes in Dublin, thoughts on this?

26 comments

1. If it gets people off the streets then I’m for it. And before anyone asks, no I don’t care for the landlords who are willing to leave these vacant.

2. Posturing.

   >These homes have been lying vacant for several years, as Dublin City Council allows them fall into ruin.

   So who exactly is it they think is going to live in somewhere like that?

3. If people are happy to live in them, fair play but most of them really aren’t suitable for living without significant fixing up.

4. How do we possibly have boarded up houses in this country… I could understand a few, but within 2km of my rural house, just outside a big town within 45 minutes of Dublin, there are 14 boarded up houses. There us a story behind all of them but a vacant property tax would free up most of them.

5. Snoop and Chris are going to be very pissed off.

6. Christ, state of that twitter.

7. Another fringe Republican Socialist Group is just what we need. The lampost sticker war with the IRSP will be off the charts.

8. If the houses are essentially unlivable because of disrepair, I don’t really see the point in this. Are they asking people to help bring them up to code?

9. Activists should be a label thats earned not given automatically.

10. Who will be responsible if someone gets severely injured or killed in a dangerous run down building?

11. They should be opened by the owners.

12. Kind of fucked up that they are cheering on forcing homeless to live in squalor

13. It’s a start

14. Well at least someone is doing something with them.

    FF/FG seems happy to let vacants rot for years and see more never to be used office buildings built across the city and the country.

    Throw a can on the street and get fined, leave a four storey townhouse in the city center to fall apart for years and years, nothing.

15. Something like this happened before

16. Squatting should be legal where no plans in place for building. Make banks, developers, and council keep the stock turned over.

17. I actually just came back this minute from an interview with members of a squat over here in Amsterdam, where squatting, or Kraak, is seen as a legitimate political action. There are many groups here that use squatting empty buildings to protect the housing crisis, and the neighbours were chatting with me about how happy they all were to see an empty laundromat being used for something useful.

    I would love to see these actions taking place all over Ireland to keep pressure on scumbag landlords who purposely keep buildings empty during a national crisis.

18. Use it or lose it.

19. Fair play. The amount of derelict buildings around the city centre alone is crazy

20. Ahh yes a group that advocates violence going round tyranically taking peoples property in the name of their cause. This group are the closest thing to any kind of ‘fascism’ we have in the land

21. All for it. They have my support with what they are re doing, and why

22. 100% onboard with this. Dorset street flats are lying 70% vacant in a housing crisis. I grew up in one of those flats. They’re proper sized for a family, built like bunkers, and what a location!

23. I think given the housing crisis it’s a pretty logical action to take.

    Personally I want to see the state seize all property vacant for more than 2 years and just put it on the open market.

24. You have people who need homes. You have empty houses. Why can’t you join the dots

25. I mean it breaking and entering, I’m pretty sure the flats they are doing this at are set to e demolished and rezoned to higher-density housing, this just slow down the whole redevelopment process at they well spend years in the courts trying the get the occupies out now, the only thing they have done is stealing housing fo those that don’t want to pay.

26. House beside my parents has been abandoned for 5 years. The chap who was paying a mortgage on it disappeared. Parents asked the council to take action, and they out a notice up 2 years ago… Nothing since. Perfectly good house that needs to be CPOd or even bought from the bank. It really makes you think like they don’t want to solve the crisis at times.