Housing Madness

Agreed.

...but to be fair, the scary foreigners are a hell of a scapegoat though.....

You are really not aware of fake refugees in Ireland? How does a person travel through countries they can seek refugee status and come to Ireland instead? Arriving on flights having "lost" there passports between getting on and off the plane. Many people claiming refugee status are economic migrants and some are actually wealthy in their own countries.

Really dumping a refugee into some rural location seems reasonable to you? They do need some help integrating and connections to their own culture. I doubt they will be welcomed by the locals either

nah we've had pages of a handful of people with vested interest stating, without anything to back it up, that the substantial part of the vacant property stock is utterly unsuitable

We are accepting 6,900 refugees under two programmes.

https://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Irish_Refugee_Protection_Programme_(IRPP)

Clearly, housing these 6,900 refugees is, and will, add to the demand for housing.

Are they the main cause of the housing crisis? No.

Are they adding to demand, and so contributing to the crisis? Yes

Please note: these 6,900 refugees are separate from the bogus AS.

The city council bought a 3 bed estate house recently next door to my cousin. They paid over 300k for it. Weeks later a Nigerian lady with 2 teenage children moved in. The builders arrived the following week and installed new bathrooms, new kitchen & applliances, new flooring through out, new composite front door and new steeltech shed. Builders were telling my cousin that she was paying for the revamp herself, as she ackowledged that this would be her house for life. She did a lovely job of the house, keeps the outside tiday, nice flowers, lawn, etc. My cousin doesnt think she works as she comes home after school drop offs, but he's not sure. My cousin said they are a very quiet family (my cousin is relieved a family of scangers didnt move next door).

Lots of other neighbors in the same estate are young families, both irish and immigrant families, who go out to their jobs everyday, offices, hospitals, factories, building sites, etc, and fork out €1,000 a month or more to rent their house.

I would like to see my tax money going towards those lower income families as well. They deserve a social house as well, or even more the fact they go out to work everyday and keep our country going. Remember the worst of Covid, a lot of these men and women who cant get social housing were the ones who cleaned the hospitals, who worked at the shops/supermarkets, who drove the lorries and buses. We shouldnt forget that, ever.

Well thats an idiotic statement to start. What's a "vested interest" and how do you determine people you don't agree with supposedly have them? If you would like proof of vacant properties in dire condition around the county, simply take a drive and look around you. In the area I live approx 2 out of 4 older vacant houses are in such poor condition, that they would require to be brought back to the four walls and rebuilt to make them habitable and brought up to present building standards.

There's very good reasons why many vacant properties are vacant. As above, many are old, may require substantial rebuilding and or remodeling and some just require bulldozed. This idea that there's loads of flowers around the door, vacant but ready to move in "forever homes" to be handed out is complete and utter nonsense.