Newry, Co.Down but this can be seen in every village, town & city across Ireland. How many people could be housed if such properties were brought back into use?



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9 comments

  1. Irish in France here. What they do here is massively increase the owner’s property tax until they cop themselves on. Ireland really needs to do this…

  3. It comes down to whos gonna put the cost into reviving it or can it be if even. Euros & cents+time. If I a betting man without even seeing the inside of this property, Id say its walls are supporting the adjacent buildings. Otherwise the innards must be terrible for it to be boarded up and to keep youth and squatters causing further damage and fires.

  5. Taking into account the roughly 19,500 derelict houses and the average amount of bedrooms in an average house you could house a little over 53,000 people I reckon.

  6. If labour is one of the big issues with construction – I’m not sure if renovations would necessarily be *that* much of a solution. The cost of renovations of derelict properties is also pretty huge – even just making some renovations to a property that’s currently inhabited can be eye-wateringly expensive.

    Obviously we should want to get rid of dereliction for more reasons than just the housing crisis, definitely not arguing that. I’m just not sure if it actually is an easy solution that would have a big short-term impact.

  7. yes there is a property on a prominent road in cork that has been empty for at least 15 years now

  8. If you take a walk along the canals in central Dublin, it’s appalling the scale of dereliction, empty space and low rise housing. And this within walking distance of the city centre. Meanwhile we are being forced to build apartment blocks outside the M50 because that’s the only place where planning permission is being granted to build. We need to knock large areas of the central city, and fuck all this terrible planning.

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