New social housing Johnstown court

Speak to Cluid and ask what their policy is regarding possible anti social behaviour, but that can happen in private residences too.

I think all residents for Cluid have to be vetted and are under rules and regs. But who knows?

Blame mc Verry and the homeless charities now. They just want more money from us, but don't seem to care if there are any implications from less than neighbourly people around who are provided these homes from our taxes.

I know they are not ALL like that, but a good majority are sadly and there do not seem to be any sanctions whatsoever for them.

bubblypop wrote: »

Don't see anything to be worried about in the title?

I do....:D

bubblypop wrote: »

Yep.
No problem

I doubt it if you are paying for your house with your own means. Well to be fair I'd be the same.

But if you are not paying for it yourself that's fine, otherwise use due diligence and don't be so naive these days. But maybe you think it's fine to get a humungous mortgage and live next to scrotes who pay 1/30th of your monthly mortgage in order to drive the location down.

Fine. Doesn't sound too forward thinking to me. But whatever.

The housing associations and councils are buying up private houses all over the place, you've no idea who your next door neighbour is going to be regardless of where you buy or live. The development at RTE has social housing.

Free gaffs.

Foreva homes.

10,000 homeless.

This country is heading one way.

Caranica wrote: »

Reality is that even in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, you're rarely more than a stone's throw away from people you might not want to live near.

Housing associations tend to have stricter rules on anti social behaviour than local authorities so it's not the end of the world.

I don't know anything as to how Cluid etc conduct their business - but in reality, what powers do these housing associations have to deal with anti-social tenants (are they tenants or do they have a stake in the property?)
Seeing as its a mountain of a task to get rid of a tenant, particularly in the Covid-era, what can these associations do?

DangerScouse wrote: »

Factcheck: There isn't one single free "gaff" in Ireland. Everybody pay rent to the county council.

Factcheck.

DCC is owed 40 million in rent arrears form social housing.

You're fact is debunked.

I wouldn't want to buy next door to a bunch of social houses either OP.
I live close to Ballybrack near there and it's amazing the difference walking from a mostly social housing area to a mostly private housing one, it is like night and day.
One area will have graffiti and litter everywhere, the green areas will have burnt out husks of trees previously set on fire, scorched paths from previous stuff set alight on them, abandoned Tesco shopping trolleys in the stream, houses which clearly haven't had a lick of paint or maintenance since the day they were built, the list goes on - the council does everything or nothing gets done.

Turn a corner into a private estate and none or little of this is present.

Have a look at the Ballybrack end of Kilbogget park versus the other end with the rusty fish sculpture in Cabinteely to see what I mean. Some scrotes ripped up all the new trees planted at the newly revamped Ballybrack entrance one night just for kicks for example recently, there's a lot more happening that end throughout the year as anyone that goes though it regularly will tell you that simply is non-existent at the other (primarily private housing) end.
The sad truth is though that unless you can afford the likes of Foxrock, Dalkey or a house in the countryside , there is always going to be areas like this around Dublin. A 5-10 minute walk away from it is probably as good as it will get in most parts of Dublin.

timmyntc wrote: »

I would say the exact opposite - our dealings with cluid have shown that they are toothless to tackle anti-social behaviour - burglaries, car thefts, house parties etc all traced back to 1 cluid owned home.
Multiple gardai complaints, hundreds of phone calls and emails - they basically fobbed everyone off.

They have their own disciplinary procedures for tenants in which they get several chances - regardless of how serious the offence is. After all these chances have expired, they *may* initiate eviction proceedings - although they admit in this case they fully expect to go to RTB and then on to court which would take months/years to resolve.

The only way anti-social tenants ended up leaving is that Cluid offered them a place elsewhere - so that they (cluid) didn't have to deal with 50+ residents of estate complaining to them daily.

Great little country.

cubatahavana wrote: »

Could I ask you if you know of these things first hand? I wouldn’t mind social housing if the effort to combat anti social behavior is there

All the effort in the world can be there but it's very, very difficult to evict. That said 5 - 10 minutes walk away can make all the difference.

As a previous poster said buy in a settled area. No way I would buy a new build with the uncertainty the council is promoting.