Times are good on Bonus Street although drug taking and paranoia are high. Most of these people don’t have a job and now they’re having to learn how to get by on even more money than before. Benefits Street, that hugely controversial show on Channel4 in the UK, purports to be a fly-on-the-wall look at a Birmingham street populated by the feckless underclass. However, working families that were followed for … Read More
Benefits Street Scrounger
‘Margaret Thatcher’s pal Nischal is known as Goldfinger and rakes in thousands from families living on the breadline renting out damp homes with faulty heating’ writes today’s Mirror. The squalid rented four-bedroom home on TV’s controversial Benefits Street is so riddled with damp that water runs down the walls. There is no heating because the boiler has long been broken – and the tenant’s children are so frozen at … Read More
#clickBait: Demolition of Charlemont Street Flats
Click on photos below to scroll through more A few snaps from earlier today. The demolition of both Charlemont Gardens and Ffrench Mullen House. Dublin’s South Inner City. For a little more on these flats see here and of course check out Come Here To Me blog
Up Up And Away: What’s Going On With Dublin’s Property Prices?
With everyone seemingly going ga-ga over the rise in house prices, it’s like Ireland has made a miraculous recovery. Hold off on buying that champers-fuelled jetpack just for a moment though, as Stephen Bourke looks into the housing crisis that is still very much in existence. The great big Bank of Ireland ad on Manor Street says something like, “I thought I’d be renting for the rest of my … Read More
Deliberate Dereliction
If the market is based on supply and demand then why do we have a housing crisis, extortionate rents and so many empty homes we’ve lost count? Paul Reynolds and Lorna Muddiman examine the crisis and the solutions. Cars speed past in twos and threes as we turn our backs on the Naas road and stroll up the narrow laneway. Colin McCabe is worried about what’s happening to this little … Read More
My Little Squatty Watty: Grangegorman Update.
An update from one of the squatters in Grangegorman after their first day of eviction resistance. Today was very quiet; there was no eviction attempt. We were prepared for the worst, but no cops called around, nobody claiming to be the owner, nothing. An update from one of the squatters in Grangegorman after their first day of eviction resistance. Today was very quiet; there was no eviction attempt. We were prepared … Read More
#rabbleReels : A Whole Load Of Squat.
Not to detract from our bits on Boston, but after Stoneybatter today here’s a few flicks to awake the womble in ya. I was nearly going to make my own list, but this Youtube playlist here more or less nailed all the major ones. If you have any more, why not share them with the rest of the rabble on our wall on Facebook, on Twitter using #rabbleReels or … Read More
Squat’s That All About? Quick Report From Manor Street.
Word broke out around three o’clock today that there was an eviction taking place on Manor St. This rabbler slurped down the last of his coffee and sprinted over to the hipster side of D7 to find out what was going on. Not much to be honest when I got there. The cops had long since gone, having came round earlier in the day – but they left with an … Read More
We’ve turned another corner
Cavan ghost estate sells for €210,000 at auction A distressed property auction in the Shelbourne Hotel and organised by Allsop saw one Cavan ghost estate containing 5 completed houses, 4 partly finished and planning for 52 more sell for €210,000 today. Other cut-price bargains (?) included a 3-bed house in Longford (€35,000), a 3-bed house in Louth (€124,000) a bar in Co. Cork (€190,000) and a derelict cottage in Cork (€33,000). … Read More
Property Tax by the back door
Almost all residential properties are subject to the new so-called property tax enacted on 26th December last year. This will include the 125,000 local authority homes whose residents are exempt, sneaky-tax-style . It seems that rents will be increased for council tenants, coincidentally, at the same time as the new property tax falls due. Bang! and the money’s gone. Cllr Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central) claims there definitely will be … Read More