Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Around about 500 in DCC alone are empty out of a stock of about 25000.

Allocation of housing is based on your numbers in your areas of of choice governed by your need .Factor in estate management checks , your situation I.e. are you senior citizens, disabled , medical priority etc.

People are getting housed in DCC , properties are being refurbished along with grants being issued.

There's an article about san Fran today in the daily mail.co.uk/us/

It says the city is being destroyed by homeless people open drug dealing on the streets it sounds alot worse than Dublin

Watch out junkies and beggars of dublin, we have a new Charles Bronson here with a death wish.

Dublin for the Dubliners.

Bit late for that now though.

It's simple, there is an inane insistence in demanding that people be housed in the area they grew up regardless of their means or ambitions, however this only seems to apply in Dublin.

In the rest of the country (& real world) you live where you can afford to, yes there are downsides like slums or people who can not remain living where they grew up, you move to where you need to.

Is there social housing in central manhattan, because they grew up there? or anywhere else?

Yesterday at 10:30pm, I had to change from the red line LUAS to a bus on O'Connell St. The walk just takes a few minutes. I had a pass a group junkies and one of them followed me, grabbed my shoulder and asked for money. I correctly said I didn't have any and then he threatened to punch me in the face unless I gave him money. I told him to f*ck off which he did. Not pleasant and I wouldn't consider 10:30pm on a Friday evening particularly late either. I know this can happen in any big city but groups of scumbags should not be allowed to loiter / gather / drug deal in main city streets because it just increases the chances that they'll harass random members of the public.

Perhaps they control them better so, because I've pretty similar levels of experiences in both & I'd rather be out for a few drinks in NYC than Dublin.

Do you have the percentage breakdown of social to private in NYC to compare to Dublin out of curiosity ?

Two things keep coming up in this thread (Before I go on I grew up in Clontarf which is about 20 mins from O'Connell St and spent much of my 40 odd years going into Dublin City Centre (which in my mind is the area inside the Point, Christ Church, Smithfield and the Garden of Rememberance), primarily for work).

1. The area being referred to as **** in Dublin City Centre (primarily around O'Connell, Parnell to Talbot St), which is commonly referred to as 'Dublin' and 2. The perception as much as the reality of that area.

Firstly, I think people would agree that a similar size area about 500 metres away around Grafton, Dawson, Merrion & Stephens Green would be perceived completely differently.

Second. The reality is if you had to go through video of everybody's experience when going into DCC you'd give up after a short while because you'd get bored waiting for something to happen, especially if you're from Dublin.

Dublin, like most other cities, is like this.

Third. However, unlike most cities, a very small but hugely prominent area (relative to the whole country, not just Dublin) is not being managed effectively, either through lack of willingness, incompetence or something even worse.

So who is benefitting from the lack of management and negative media around the above area mentioned, an area about 1% the size of Phoenix Park or the same size as Trinity College campus?

I'd suggest to start with...a) Casinos, Betting shops, Off licence etc b) Religious orders, Charities, Solicitors etc c) Legal system, top to bottom etc. d) Other criminal enterprises not mentioned previously. That's just a few.

Next. Who is enabling this and do the people of Ireland actually want this area policed and managed effectively or are we content that this small area gives us something to make us feel better, despite the consequences?

That for me is the interesting one because in most normal cities, just to start with, there would be an appropriate number of police deployed on a permanent basis and strictly enforcing measures from begging to loitering to public order to shoplifting to theft of other property. Littering is a thing but that is not high up the list.

Is it worth trying...or are people just happy the way things are?

This is and will spread to other towns and cities as the population grows, probably at a more rapid pace given the drugs that are out there now.

Ireland, despite its many issues, is a reasonably decent place to live and travel around (personally i have never been the victim of crime, which to be fair is a low benchmark). But we're usually 20 years behind the more advanced countries, both the good and the bad that is exported to us.

All cities , towns and villages in Ireland have got rougher and crime ridden in the last 10/20 years it’s not just O Connell street in Dublin . Drugs and the closure of many garda stations has seen people afraid to walk the streets of many towns - travellers/ drug gangs control swathes of rural Ireland .the government don’t give a toss .

i know 2 people who moved out of council flats, it took the council 8 months just to clean the flats ,and make minor repairs, before they moved in a new tenant .at any time there must be 100s of flats empty.those 2 flats were both in very good condition when the tenant moved out