Social housing at Castletroy (Newtown Meadows)

The developer is required by law to give (or sell?) 10% of any new development to an approved housing body for social housing. So if you can find out how many houses the estate is going to have then 10% of those will be social housing

No doubt there'll be a lot of them in arrears down the line as well, not even paying the token rents

As far as I'm aware the council doesn't buy more than 10% or maybe 20% of the houses in an established area! The event figure I don't know but there is a limit

It is galling to see Familys who never worked a day in their lives getting fine houses for token rent whilst decent people working use all their income to rent or pay their mortgage and have less disposable income than those who never worked.

There is a few very large extended familys in Limerick city & County who seem to be allowed never work who are laughing at the tax payers of LImerick and our politicans are very silent on the matter for fear of been called out for discrimination .

That's pretty bad now that novas knowingly gave a taxi driver working for cash a house in adare... These houses are meant to be for homeless who can't rub 2 pennies together to put a roof over their heads. I like to believe this is the exception than the rule

Your argument about the development is fair though, I hope you raised an objection with the council and subsequently to ABP about that and I hope one of them sides with you! Was out for a walk today and passed at least 10 seemingly derelict houses along rosbrien/Edward Street, why are they not being brought back into use instead of building where they're not needed?

Interesting article I read the other day that I only managed to find now

Interesting if you scroll about half way down that page

The appeals board points out the development plan states that tall buildings outside the city centre will only be permitted at designated centres.

The development plan referenced is the Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028.

Limerick council planners seem to approve anything and everything these days regardless of the impact of the public but I'd say you're 50/50 with ABP

Its everywhere. All over the country. (but I appreciate this is a Limerick thread, I mentioned it so you don't feel like the only ones!)

yes absolutely, I lived in an estate in Meath until a year ago with 900 units, some owner occupied, some private rental, some social housing. It was actually fine in my part but there was a significant drugs problem also in the estate in a certain area where there was a high rate of unemployment and young men hanging around all day. It was a lovely place when I moved there in 2012, but people were getting nervous about what was ahead for their kids and grandkids. It was changing, our community garden smashed up regularly, regular Garda visits to the same houses and at one stage Armed Response Unit.

I sold a year ago to be closer in West Limerick/Kerry to family.

Just to be clear. There's no such thing as a free house (or indeed a fre house.) Council house occupiers are tenants who pay rent to the council based on the income levels of the household. The tenants will never own their homes unlike you or me and while some will abuse the system and have nice cars and headstones the vast majority don't.

Has the question ever been asked of your local politicians why people who can clearly afford the nice things you listed are being placed in these homes ahead of the families who struggle to put food on the table?

The antisocial behaviour is all over the city, county and country and not confined just to estates with council housing. It would stop fairly quickly as well if there was a stronger police presence and a more meaningful courts service to deter this behaviour

It's auful that it happens now in annacotty/castletroy but the blame for this is not on the council building homes for those that need them

The real problem is the law not being enforced, if it was you'd get the same people causing zero trouble

The old joke, if you rob €150 you get a suspended sentence, if you don't pay your TV licence you get 6 months, so rob €150 and pay your TV licence off it

Yeah if you ever see a cop in that area it's because he's looking for the nearest donut shop or looking for tax/insurance discs

The problem is that social housing here usually means lower income households... The Viennese idea is a good one though

This is the way it should be done, especially now that we're seeing young people starting out in their careers completely unable to afford to have any sense of independence with outrageous rents. This is causing staff shortages in various sectors, including Gards and nurses and teachers and the overall civil service. But of course you'll have the older generation spiteful towards any such initiatives to help the youth in this country with the usual "I suffered so you should suffer too" mentality, and more worried about their home's value even though they're going to live there until they die anyway (meanwhile their kids/grandkids are increasingly living at home into their 30s and unable to have families)

Fully agree with that, anyone in full-time employment deserves to be able to afford a roof over their head and the opportunity for upwards mobility. I believe a good way to approach it would be having 100% social housing developments for individuals who choose to remain on the dole long-term so the wasters can endure each other, and then mixed housing developments for everyone else who actually gets off their holes and contributes towards society. This would act as encouragement to better one's living situation by simply bettering one's life overall and progressing as a person and working towards self reliance and independence instead of remaining as a permanent leech to the rest of the people in society.

Have the housing done in a way that people are encouraged to be able to save towards deposits and eventually buy a place for themselves, to free up their public housing unit for the next person trying to get established. We'd have a much happier and productive society as a result, for individuals who actually do something for themselves at least

You absolutely do deserve it Edward. You are exactly the person it should be for. I think people here are referring to the people with the intergenerational hand out that offer nothing to society except anti social behaviour.