Buying Next Door to Social House

lols...russian roulette - the clue is in the name...it's a gamble, a game of chance...if you can't work out simple probabliity from the analogy given then really you should just stop as you're probably arguing from some point of misunderstanding more than anything else.

Run away. You shouldn't have to live next door to scumbags when you're paying for the house yourself.

FYI for anyone buying in a new build, you can generally look up the planning documents online and they will have the Part V houses marked on the plans. If they're not explicitly marked out, then it will tell you what type of house is Part V and you can see where this type is located on the plans.

Just if you want to put some distance if you have the choice of houses.

The council aren't really known for dealing with problem tenants. I would say you would probably be better off with a private landlord. The council still needs to house a problem family and as long as they are not living beside those working in the council they seem to be fine with it. If the council actually did their job and ensured that those who are in social housing look after the place and do not engage in anti-social behavior, there wouldn't be the fear of living beside council tenants.

They could move people on. Other people shouldn't have to deal with anti-social behavior. I think the least someone who is receiving heavily subsidised/free housing can do is follow the rules. The council shouldn't be allow people to run scrap yards on the property (as someone mentioned above) or allow them to have dogs that bark all day.

From other threads I think it is clear we have different opinions about what we can reasonably expect from state employees. The fact that so many people fear living beside social housing is down to the reality that in most cases nothing will be done. I don't have a particular issue with the idea of social housing (I grew up in a council estate in Dublin), the issue is with the authorities not dealing with problem tenants.

Just want to throw my own hat in the ring here, we have friends who live beside a terraced social house, the neigbours who live there are absolutely no problem at all although they are very quiet

The issue is if you want to get anything like repairs done on a shared wall or chimney stack be prepared for a big bill as the council only want their own, more expensive "framework" builders working on it

I have suggested the OP to buy a villa with no neighbours within a shouting distance, but somehow my advice was not taken seriously.

Let me explain. If the OP has no budgetary constraints, then why would we discuss this? The best neighbours are not social tenants, or owner occupiers, or AirB&B guests. The best neighbours are not heard nor seen unless you want them to be seen. Their kids do not bounce footballs off your car. Their teenagers do not smoke hash hiding behind your house. You don't want to find some neighbour's guest car blocking your house when you come back from work.

So we can assume that the OP has a limit of €XXX K to buy a house. It will not be an ideal house, some compromises will have to be made. Would you buy a damp house, but without a social house next door? No space to put your car, but with owner occupiers on both sides? No suitable school nearby? Unless you already know that the social house has troublesome tenants already, I would consider the risk of having bad social house tenants to be less important than choosing things that you can actually have control over (location, state of the house, etc).

If an owner occupier or renter lived next door they could have a much bigger impact on your life also... But with a council house at least you have an outlet to complain to (the council housing board) if the tennants need turfing out

I'd hate to have no neighbours. Get on great with mine and adds to my appreciation of my house.

We live in a really lovely quiet part of Dublin close to the city centre and I've unfortunately some social housing across the road from me.

It's a beautiful end of terrace house that was done up by the council not too long ago. Has a great big side garden on it too which none of the other houses on the street have. On the open market you'd probably get 450k for it. Would be a lovely family home for a couple starting off.

They have it in an absolute state. Garden totally going to waste. Fencing around the garden has all but fallen down and just left to lie on the ground. Been like that for months. They routinely dump bags of rubbish and broken toys/other household waste on the streets around their house, which I've to log a call with the council to get rid of as it just sits there otherwise.

It's the only council house on the road, everyone else are owner occupiers and take a lot of pride in their homes and the road. Between us we put a lot of effort in cleaning the place up, deweeding, planting flowers etc.

It's a real case of people getting something for free/next to free and not having any sense of it's value or pride in it. Really sad to see.

I do yes, sort of a "prejudice" you have?