These 'properties' are in need of demolition with the traditional style 'bold dynamite' at the very least and their 'tenants' along with the legions of homeless ~ immediately re-housed in the myriad of empty, newly built and abandoned properties that now exist throughout the island of Ireland. Furthermore it is in my humblest of opinions ~ an outright insult to those peoples forced by an ethically inert society to 'exist' in such 'housing' conditions by that opportunistic 'gang-land' of owners concerned only with their continued ownerships.
These tumble-down properties once more rightly referred to as 'fixer-upper' opportunities; as glibly described by bandit auctioneers in the more affluent of Irish Times. Such propagandas aimed solely at equally corrupt property-developers via an in-house propaganda-machine to grab the last 'fast-buck' remaining in the people's already purloined back pockets and emptied state coffer?
It beggars the mind that these criminal landlords presiding over such modern European Ghetto's deemed unfit for 'human-consumption' is approved by the Department of Social Protection and 'get away' to the nearest state owned banking-house of ill-repute with the ill-gotten gains of this ultimate of crime of inhumanity.
Rather than is the authors nonsensical contention that purports in essence to further division of people, in that "Working tenants can now effectively be outbid by welfare tenants, who have no incentive to haggle, in most parts of the country."
Addendum: with almost a half-million unemployable citizens in the state of which I suspect are the majority of the 97,000 recipients now dependent of woefully inadequate rent supplements. Ergo an inadequacy without any option to view contemporary life via Rose-tinted, glasses, as must the author of this literary diatribe, now sport in wrongful perception of those 'welfare tenants' entrenched and made impotent by design in societal disadvantage.
There is no 'opportunity to achieve a triple-win by reducing rent supplement' as suggested in this article; being home-less, voice-less and choice-less which can be no triple-win at all by anyone renting their basic constitutional right to a decent home.
Unless of course one is occupying ones 'home' over two floors' on the North Circular Road in Dublin devoid of imprisonment and/or rent allowance in 1 of 17 bed-sits; being self-described as a 'Working tenant' who generally would not qualify for a rent supplement.
Furthermore; a 'Working tenant' one who is firmly ensconced as an 'Irish economist' at Oxford University and 'running' what can only be a 'self-invested and self-interested' Economic Research unit at Daft.ie ~ now, self-described, as ~ those inveterate purveyors on-line, modern urban tenement, auctioneering?
©Séafra Ó Ceallaigh 2011
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