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THE FINAL BLOCKS of flats on the O’Devaney Gardens site are set to be torn down, making way for a new social housing development.
A meeting of Dublin City Council last night saw a motion passed that will see the site redeveloped into fully State-owned accommodation, with final demolition taking place in three weeks’ time.
When finished, the development will house around 480 new homes.
The new development will serve as a pilot scheme for placing social housing and private rentals on the same site.
Mixed residency
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, councillor Éilis Ryan – who brought the motion forward – said:
“It is quite similar to schemes that the government has been proposing about having a mix of income levels – but the difference is that it is 100% public.”
Ryan said that the scheme would be an alternative to subsidies for landlords scheme laid out in the government’s Rebuilding Ireland housing strategy announced earlier this month.
The affordable rental proposal contained in the government’s housing plan proposes that €10 million in funding be made available to subsidise landlords – potentially making around 2,000 rental properties available for those on low to moderate incomes.
Half of the units developed on the O’Devaney Gardens site will be used as social housing, while the other half will be rented to those with a demonstrated housing need.
Tenants would then be charged a rent tied to their income – with higher earners paying a higher rent.
Demolition
Two of the four remaining blocks of flats are still occupied.
While Ryan said she was happy with the redevelopment plan, she was concerned that these two flat blocks will be demolished before residents have been placed in alternative accommodation available to them.
Letters of comfort have been given to the current residents to assure them that they will be able to return to the site once the redevelopment is complete.
The vote is binding – as DCC has final say over what it does with its own land – but will have to be put forward to the Department of Housing for funding to be approved.
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I wonder will the Marxist rabble who recently had the audacity to gatecrash a Christmas mass in progress at a Dublin Cathedral..an outrage completely ignored by most of the media..to make some point about Israel and Gaza be out feeding the homeless on Christmas day? Somehow I very much doubt it!
@Jonn: I don’t think that Hamas or their fan clubs are noted for their charitable endeavours, especially around Christian festivals.
@Thomas Sheridan:
That’s true! I’m curious why the leftist rent a mob chose a Christian ceremony to disrupt..luck of the draw I suppose? Would they have been as quick to invade a mosque, or even a synagogue,which in the circumstances might have been more aligned with their ’cause’? But like the cowards they are they chose a church,an easy,safe target.
@Jonn:
Away sking with Mummy And Papa.
@H Woo:
Quite possibly, the ‘climate crisis’ will have to wait while they fly into Italy for a nice festive break from virtue signalling!
@Jonn: If Jesus was born now (assuming he was ever born or existed) he would undeniably be Palestinian. Unfortunately, the odds of him surviving today in Palestine might not be very good.
@Jack Hayes:
Jack I 100% support the Palestinians, and denounce everything Israel is doing,it’s an abomination, but still doesn’t explain why these morons thought disrupting a Christmas mass was relevant to their cause?
@Jonn: jesus was Marxist before Marxism
@Jonn: Mayne highlight the churchs silence on the GAZA situation
@Niall Lappin:
The church hasn’t been silent
You just haven’t been listening to it
@Niall Lappin:
How come they didn’t rock up to a synagogue waving their Palestinian flags?Probably more appropriate especially given senior Jewish figures in Irelands unquestioning support for Israel and the IDF? Or would the optics not have looked right, easier to pick on the usual whipping boy,the catholic church!
@Niall Lappin:
It’s always funny when people who wouldn’t be caught dead in a church enlighten us with the true meaning of Christianity!
@Jack Hayes:
He was Jewish
My father was in the Knights and he used to go to the mansion house every Christmas morning to bring comfort and joy and a fantastic Christmas Dinner to the homeless and make sure they weren’t forgotten about.
Excellent work by all those involved, a heartwarming show of Christianity
May God Bless them all.
@JP Fox: may the force be with you too
Nobody should be hungry.
Logion 29 : (L’évangile de Thomas).
Jésus disait : ‘ si la chair est venu à l’existence à cause de l’esprit,
c’est une merveille,
mais si l’esprit est venu à l’existence à cause du corps,
c’est une merveille de merveille.
mais moi, je me m’émerveille de ceci :
Comment cet être qui Est,
peut-il habiter ce néant ?’
(CF MT. 21, 41; MC 12, 11 ; JN 1, 14 ; 1 TM 3, 16 ; RM 8, 13 ; 1 CO 5, 3.)
Translated into French by Jean -Yyves Leloup.
@offside again: Go home bot. You’re drunk
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