The Dublin Tenants Association has an online campaign highlighting abuses in Ireland’s rental sector and they want you to get involved.
No Warning.
Above: Photos and video taken from the Irish Housing Network Facebook page. Fifty beds were closed last night at the Bru Hostel, and with nowhere left to go, residents took direct action to keep them open. The hostel is managed by Crosscare and the closure comes despite the council passing two motions for the hostel to stay open beyond May. The Digital Hub is run by the city council, under … Read More
#HowsYourGaff
London heads are using social media to highlight the utter shtate of their rental accommodation by sharing handmade signs, cardboard memes and posters.
Generation Rent instigated the campaign to force the housing issue to the top of the London Mayoral agenda. Unsurprisingly, it’s a litany of high rents, dismal dives and nightmare landlord stories.
Was It For This?
Above: Some portraits celebrating the memory of the executed leaders of the 1916 rising at Arbour Hill last week. Check out more shots from Jamie Goldrick here. Last week’s 1916 commemoration was a grandiose spectacle, imbued with a huge amount of national symbolism and with no cost spared. Niall O’Sullivan says it’ll change nothing for the growing thousands of homeless men, women and children in emergency accommodation or those … Read More
Can’t Get No Relief.
In February of this year Maggie Corrigan was consumed with making a documentary about homelessness in Dublin, specifically looking at how it affected lone parent families. It was impossible to find people willing to talk about their homelessness on camera when all of a sudden she found herself at the centre of her own housing nightmare. As the due date loomed closer for my documentary, I decided to look … Read More
Mountjoy Street Eviction Update.
Activists from the Irish Housing Network have barricaded themselves in with four families facing eviction from numbers 54 and 55 Mountjoy Street, Dublin 7. The group is calling for support as they expect a second attempted eviction at 5pm. “There was an attempted forced eviction at 10 with unidentified heads breaking open a door and removing property including kids passports. The property was taken back by activists. People here are expecting … Read More
The Housing Crisis in D15.
A Roof Over Our Heads is a documentary produced by Freda Hughes and Dave Blackwell with interviews carried out by Colman Duggan and Niamh Mc Donald. It examines on the Housing Crisis with specific focus on it’s impact in the Fingal County and Dublin City Council jurisdictions. The documentary was recorded throughout 2015 with input from a hape of foks including Threshold, Focus Ireland, North Dublin Bay Housing Crisis Committee … Read More
The Property Game.
We’ll be getting all the bits and bobs from #rabble11 up on the site over the next week or two. First there’s this fully immersive 2d role playing game we developed in the weeks prior to Christmas. Download it and kill some time on the bus home. Just open it up on your phone and use a wipe-able marker so you don’t fuck up your screen with scrawls. Let us … Read More
Powerless Without Solidarity.
A homeless family is calling for support tomorrow against eviction.
A Critical Chorus.
While clowns like Tom Barry are selling up their houses over fears property hating communism has come to Ireland in the form of those new housing measures, a more sane criticism grows as people finally digest what the new measures really mean. Among that growing critical chorus is the Dublin Tenant’s Association. Central to their disagreement is the fact that tenants will basically receive two years worth of rent increases in … Read More