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HOUSING ASSOCIATION FOLD Ireland has used a new method of accessing finance for social housing projects to provide state-of-the-art homes for dozens of people.
Announced today in Glasnevin, Dublin, the organisation is to redevelop an existing housing project for older people after Dublin City Council transferred ownership.
This allowed Fold to access private funding from Bank of Ireland as well as CALF (Capital Advance Leasing Facility) funding from the Department of Environment.
Funding
The site was used as security for the funding.
“The economic downturn has made it extremely difficult for local authorities to meet the demand that exists for social housing,” Development Manager Tina Donaghy explained.
“As a result, housing associations such as Fold are working with local councils and the Department of the Environment to develop innovative solutions to meet social housing needs.”
One such solution is for local authorities to transfer ownership of housing projects to associations that can then leverage the projects’ existing value to access private funds.
38 single-bed apartments and one double-bed residence are to provided at the project on Ballygall Road East.
One the current residents, Patricia O’Brien, said the new apartment “will mean the world” to her.
“I’ve never gotten used to living in a bedsit with my bed in the sitting room despite having lived here for 14 years,” she said.
I can’t wait to have a bedroom and home again.
She said the area always had a strong sense of community, with all current residents being one “happy family”, and this new project will rejuvenate that.
The 81-year-old is expected to move into her new home this summer.
All construction at the site is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
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Did pavee point request that it wasn’t reported here that it was a halting site that these were found in. RTÉ news mentioned it.
@Alan Murphy: “Settled people do that all the time and there’s no word about it”!
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@ThatGuy: gas…
I came here for the monkey comments
@Sledro: World War Z -2 props?
In any other society people would inform the authorities that a monkey is being kept in a small cage in horrible conditions. But not the travelers just as they shot horses last week and one in foul, bad feeling towards them are brought about by their own actions
@DavidOReilly: foal even…
They’ll be glad to get that off their back.
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@Decko Kelly: the monkey is turning singing canarie in exchange for no jail time and witness protection
If the monkey is involved he’ll swing for it
@Tom Greaney: they should bring in someone who can speak monkey. We are rich in that talent here
Take the monkey and run.
Speak to the monkey not the organ grinder.
Monkey business
@john: not mention that it was a haulting site that was searched. WHY?
@DavidOReilly: Not a “ culture” issue obviously!
The monkey is getting 5 years for acting the ape!
@Mark Keaty: If that happens he’ll go bananas and peel against the sentence.
That’s just bananas….
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What’s the street value of a monkey?
@SilexFlint: 500 quid
So four monkeys then?
What calibre was the monkey, and was there a silencer fitted?
Someone needs to explain to these muppets that the phrase “a chimp with a machine gun” is a satirical description of a dangerous idiot, and *not* a blueprint for how to run an organisation!
@Patrick FitzGerald: reality show “American monkey with a gun” celebs get locked in a maze with a monkey with a loaded gun what could go wrong…
The organ grinder is in custody
Monkey on the banger whacked out the head!
Good boy Mojo, now throw me down the donuts… and the gear…
Wacko Jacko is alive!
The names monkey, drug mule monkey
When you pay peanuts ya know what ya get
Spanking the monkey.
Bet they don’t lock up these Monkies.
What about the Gorilla that owns him
Bet he s going nuts
Monkey See, Monkey Do LOOOOL
Free bubbles
Maybe they were spanking the monkey.
A ” monkey “
One very serious monkey that.
“See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”
One monkey doing 3 jobs:
Delaney comes to mind:
What do you call an angry monkey?
Furious George
Oh Scooby do I want a be like you you you I want snort like you shoot like you do do do
If George the monkey takes a free ride on a train, he’ll be an even bigger media star than Hamish the terrier dog.
Average IQ at the site dropped by 70% after the monkey was removed
I heard they are a Columbian drugs gang, brought the monkey with them to Finglas
The monkey was a member of the bonobo organized crime syndicate
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