![]() ![]() State would build homes Instead, what is proposed with the Fair Rent Model plan for Inchicore is that the 12 acres of public land is retained by the State – not given away. At this time of chronic housing shortage, when over 7,000 people in Dublin South Central alone are on the social housing list, I don’t think that the State should be giving away our publicly owned land to developers. ![]() This is effectively outsourcing our housing emergency to private, profit driven developers to solve. Compare that with the €1,600 average it would cost me today to rent a two-bedroom apartment off a private landlord or vulture fund in Inchicore and you can see immediately why I’m excited about this new, fair rent model.Īt the moment, there are a number of other proposals for that site that are based on selling off that land to a private developer who will then build houses or other facilities on it, basically to make a necessary profit. A fair rent model So say, you’re somebody with an income of about €30,000, your rent for a home suitable to you could be no more than €400 a month. It’s new here in Ireland but it is actually the successful rental model that has been in operation in countries across Europe for decades. What’s really ground-breaking about this proposal and what attracts me most to it is that all of houses on the site would be rented on a long term and secure basis, at a cost that is weighted according to people’s ability to pay. I have met with the team every week, as a volunteer, to develop our plan for the 12 acres of green space that is right in the middle of our community. For over a year now I have been working with the St Michael’s Regeneration Team in Inchicore – where I grew up. A different way to think about housing Because this week, I can at last begin to dream that there is a better way to do things, that there is a different way to think and plan for housing that ordinary people like me can aspire to and, above all, afford. ![]() But I have had to shut that dream out of my head, every time I look into the window of the local real estate office, every time I log on to a property website, every time I go through that familiar hall door. ![]() Much and all as I love and appreciate my parents and family, I want to move out. ![]()
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