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  • Опубликовано: 12 июл 2021
  • "People are being pushed out to the outskirts of Dublin and even down to the country. And a lot of people have emigrated because they can't even afford to stay."
    As house prices soar vulnerable communities in Dublin's city centre feel they are being forced out of areas where they have lived for generations. Calvin and Terence share their experiences of life in the flats and their frustration at being locked out of the housing market.
    This work is co-funded by Journal Media and a grant programme from the European Parliament. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this work is the author’s own. The European Parliament has no involvement in nor responsibility for the editorial content published by the project. For more information, see here.
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Комментарии • 292

  • @dianethompson2458
    @dianethompson2458 2 года назад +55

    It is the same here in Canada. I am a senior single lady on a small fixed income. I pay 50 percent of my income for housing. I live in a bug infested 250 square foot basement in a private home. I am grateful to live here because the vacancy rate is less than one percent and I live in one of the cheapest apartments in my city. The prices goes up by 25 dollars per year as well. I do not like to think about my future, but I realise how lucky I am to have a roof over my head. We have long harsh winters with temperatures as low as minus 40 C for months at a time. I feel most sorry for the young people. You deserve better and I am so sorry this is happening to you.

    • @lorgabluc
      @lorgabluc 2 года назад +1

      Where in Canada to you live ? I am in Montreal

    • @dianethompson2458
      @dianethompson2458 2 года назад +5

      @@lorgabluc I live in Guelph Ontario. We have some of the highest rents and house prices in Canada. I am considering moving to a different city as soon as I can.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад +2

      @@dianethompson2458
      That is what happens when people allow various governments to over regulate their society and market place. It normally create shortages in the marketplace. Rent control sounds great until you realize that it makes it unprofitable for landlords and developers and they then are not willing to invest in new property.

    • @dianethompson2458
      @dianethompson2458 2 года назад +1

      @@bighands69 You are absolutely right about that.

    • @ayela562
      @ayela562 2 года назад +1

      It’s the same in Niagara now too.

  • @noonesflower
    @noonesflower Год назад +10

    The guy in the yellow top is very well-spoken. Speaks very intelligently. Hopefully he'll use his intelligence to improve this country.

  • @davidr5964
    @davidr5964 3 года назад +46

    This is where I grew up. Terence's ma lived underneath us. My old block boarded up. "The Little Block" as it was known. 11 x steps on the first flight of stairs
    all the others had 9 steps, all the way to the top. 56 all together, then 9 steps to the front door.
    The patch of tarmac where they're standing was where we played rounders, and caught pigeons. Missus Clifford lived on the ground floor, corner flat and was the nicest woman you could meet.
    I know every inch of those flats still to this day, 30 years later. Up The Flats!!

    • @cheiftain732
      @cheiftain732 3 года назад +1

      Stairs was like going into a castle or something . Tower stairs i liked dorset st .

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад +2

      The exact same thing is happening all over Ireland. UK went through his decades ago and it created a cycle of property crisis.
      Allow governments and local authorities complete control over planning and the property market was always going to be a problem.
      In the countryside in Ireland there are families who have land and the money to build them self a property yet are being blocked from doing so and that then forces those exact same families into the towns after existing property stock.

    • @thinkofitthisway7804
      @thinkofitthisway7804 Год назад +1

      @@bighands69 I don't know how you can say that. Governments all over the world look out for their people and always treat them like family.

    • @xcalum_mcnal21x46
      @xcalum_mcnal21x46 Месяц назад +1

      Sad to see of will be demolished in the next few weeks❤

  • @patrickdoyle9304
    @patrickdoyle9304 3 года назад +78

    Fair play lads. Good work. I’m saying that the young people are being pushed out of all the Dublin postcodes. FFG have rolled out the red carpet for anyone with a few million that wants to double their money extracting rent from the average worker.

    • @Paul-sl9zm
      @Paul-sl9zm Год назад

      @@Endlesssummer1
      Why are you obsessed with buying a house? As long as you can afford to rent a house, be happy with that.

    • @Babybunnyxox
      @Babybunnyxox 11 месяцев назад

      @@Paul-sl9zmno thanks 😊

    • @Paul-sl9zm
      @Paul-sl9zm 11 месяцев назад

      @@Babybunnyxox
      Yeah, you probably say because you save all your money, as you make your boyfriend pay for everything

    • @tomthanks1122
      @tomthanks1122 6 месяцев назад

      Why can't you save all your money

  • @dendradwar9464
    @dendradwar9464 2 года назад +22

    To fix this
    1. State needs to do a complete review of ALL of the land that it owns though itself, county councils, semi-states, quangos, etc
    2. Needs to look at each and every regulation cost it up and ask the CRITICAL question - is this regulation really required or is it simply adding to the cost of the house
    3. Needs to launch a bond to get in 500m / 1,000m / whatever
    Put the land in for free (we the people own the land not the state we the people need the land in order to live in houses!!!) + reduce the costs of building house + raise the money to build the houses
    Longer Term
    4. Roll out trade schools train up lots of electricians, brick layers, carpenters, etc - Ireland has an aging and declining trades work force that needs to be addressed
    Basically an Irish version of FDR's new deal for the US.

  • @fergusmtiernan4411
    @fergusmtiernan4411 3 года назад +33

    This is great! More of this, please!

  • @margaretmckeon467
    @margaretmckeon467 Год назад +19

    I loved the articulate logic given by you two lads. I totally agree with the feeling of being surrounded by family in the flats, whether related to you or not. I grew up in the inner city and the village reared the child. I had a relative live in flat beside plaza.

  • @39doddle
    @39doddle 2 года назад +29

    Fair play to ye lads! I'm from a working class area in Limerick and can relate to this. Politicians, of all parties just don't care about areas like this.

    • @hisheeelijah1482
      @hisheeelijah1482 2 года назад

      Who do you say we vote for then?

    • @grlfcgombeenhunter2897
      @grlfcgombeenhunter2897 2 года назад +6

      @@hisheeelijah1482 the National party

    • @gitzersmitzer4516
      @gitzersmitzer4516 Год назад +3

      @@grlfcgombeenhunter2897 exactly. There getting my vote

    • @grlfcgombeenhunter2897
      @grlfcgombeenhunter2897 Год назад +2

      @@gitzersmitzer4516 even doh they fell out with Phil.
      I still think there our best bet bud
      🙏🏻🇮🇪🙏🏻

    • @gitzersmitzer4516
      @gitzersmitzer4516 Год назад +3

      @@grlfcgombeenhunter2897 I agree they are the only ones that care

  • @1234smileface
    @1234smileface 2 года назад +4

    Great lads. I'm definitely going to listen to their podcasts.

  • @fat2crossfit902
    @fat2crossfit902 Год назад +6

    Well done lads, 100 percent true. Spoke and came across very well 😊

  • @quirkypurple
    @quirkypurple 3 года назад +68

    Fair play to you lads. Didn't agree with every single point but mostly agree.
    Our generation is suffering to line the pockets of a few. Our generation is getting older and still living at home.

    • @grlfcgombeenhunter2897
      @grlfcgombeenhunter2897 2 года назад +4

      The lads spoke truths

    • @Koi-addict33
      @Koi-addict33 Год назад

      Sadly your gen is brainwashed to embrace all the things causing it

    • @thekillingfieldsable
      @thekillingfieldsable Год назад +2

      Everything those two lads said is correct.

    • @tomthanks1122
      @tomthanks1122 6 месяцев назад

      Our generation are soft and don't know how the world works one is 26 their talking like 16 year old

  • @chrisquirke5235
    @chrisquirke5235 Год назад +6

    Terrence your da be real proud of how you turned out ,great to see .hope it works out for you.

  • @minawahidi1453
    @minawahidi1453 2 года назад +11

    Excellent Comments!!! Heard the greatest things about The Flats!

  • @drago9123
    @drago9123 Год назад +2

    Brilliant pod cast !!

  • @YourDailyDOHs95
    @YourDailyDOHs95 3 года назад +33

    You spoke extremely well lads, particularly Cal. Fair play lads. You're both giving great accounts of yourself👍🏻

  • @holliec1528
    @holliec1528 2 года назад +7

    So well spoken

  • @eamondevalera3126
    @eamondevalera3126 2 года назад +31

    I'm emigrating to poland with my wife in October, and I happened to have a fella across the street from me doing the same.
    Ireland is so f'd atm

    • @markc3258
      @markc3258 Год назад

      3 questions
      1.
      Is your wife polish ?
      2.
      Do you speak polish
      3.
      Gave they accepted you as an outsider ?

    • @adammevsh3901
      @adammevsh3901 3 месяца назад

      go back to poland

  • @TheTrainstation
    @TheTrainstation 2 года назад +16

    I know an old man from oliver bond, had to move into homeless accomdation because a big group of young lads were harrasing him, pissing on him. Hes an innocent man from oliver bond, forced out of his home with nowhere to go. I know his story and more about elder abuse in the flats, thugs scaring everyone, dealers grooming kids and hijacking their lives. For all the great community parties and irish flags the people keep eachother down. Work isnt encouraged, and any able bodied young lad can be labourer and get 500euro a week take home or do an apprenticeship.

  • @kaya-sc5ku
    @kaya-sc5ku Год назад +5

    Lived in flats in England.... Just the same doors open, trust and people shared.

  • @tonyhart97
    @tonyhart97 2 года назад +25

    I'm in exactly the same position as the lad in yellow. I fought to get myself university educated with the hopes of getting above the poverty line. The only way I was able to do so and not have to worry about money was to leave Ireland. It's tough to watch my family struggle in what should be one of the top 5 richest nations in the world.

    • @Southpaw128
      @Southpaw128 Год назад +1

      Same boat for me. Born and raised in brooklyn, college educated with a good job and I have to live at home with my parents. Either that or pay an arm and a leg to have roommates. No thanks. Local governments have to do better

    • @UNKN0WN_1
      @UNKN0WN_1 Год назад

      @@Southpaw128 I worked hard, save money, got mortgage, having house, and creating opportunities for my self and my family..

    • @Southpaw128
      @Southpaw128 Год назад +1

      @@UNKN0WN_1 I'm saving money as well and am not blaming anyone for my predicament. I'm 26 and plan to own my own property before I turn 30. That being said, I think that the affordable housing crisis is one that can be mitigated for if local governments took the problem seriously. I choose to live in Brooklyn because it's exciting for me. I can take transit and walk and bike around, there are activities to do at any time of the day, hundreds of concerts and every type of food imaginable. If I just wanted my own house, there are a thousand places I could move to to achieve that. But living in a cookie cutter suburban cul de sac isn't what I want for my life in my 20s.

    • @UNKN0WN_1
      @UNKN0WN_1 Год назад

      @@Southpaw128 Yes I agree, I have family and I am in my 40ties, Own a mortgage in Blackrock Dublin, and I am from Poland. Granted I am here 20 years now, but for first 10 I have worked and had good times and did not make much money, but built my credibility, skill set, knowledge, made my brand and took my time, won and lost, played hard, and took my destiny in my own hands.
      Today I have no immediate family to help me raise my children, Creche cost 1200 Euro per month alone, I have no relief from the state, I have built everything from scratch, worked my way to be in a position to have that opportunities in life that i enjoy.
      Oddly enough, you do not have to truly struggle, just have to be patient, and work your way to something better, not even for yourself, but for those that one day may rely on you for their opportunity. If you stay the course, you will not get lost in the sea. True you may fail, but here, you just have to get up and try again, until you succeed. because you just need to succeed only once.
      Remember you stop being a victim of the "big bad world" the moment you are 18... Carpe Diem
      Because Housing issue is not responsible for the people and pathology that made people depend entirely, for lifetime on the Government subsidy and paycheck.
      I do recognize the need to that facility, and I am paying taxes because we are as fast as the weakest and poorest of us all in Ireland, but lifetime, generational pathological dependency of handouts feels like abuse of the system.

    • @Southpaw128
      @Southpaw128 Год назад +1

      ​@@UNKN0WN_1 I agree and life is all about ups and downs. At the end of the day you only have yourself to truly rely on. For most of us (that don't come from rich parents), we have to create the life we want to live and that will almost definitely come with hardship and pain before we get to a place of comfort. I also want to clarify my point about local government. It may work differently in the US vs Ireland or the rest of Europe but I think that local government in the US gets in the way of building new housing way too often. So I don't think giving out housing as a form of welfare is the answer but removing zoning regulations and bureaucratic processes to allow the market to create more housing will increase supply and provide for more affordable housing in cities.
      When people are working fulltime or even two jobs and can't afford rent, there's a problem. In San Francisco, most people have to drive 2 hours to get to work. It's extremely sad that we've let it get this bad.

  • @imahappycamper2022
    @imahappycamper2022 3 года назад +18

    Well said lads and some very interesting points made. Typical Dublin tho, Terrence wearing the ankle socks with bottoms and his mate wearing shorts with sports socks. Fair play to Terrence giving up the drink and drugs. I'll defo be giving the podcast a gander.

  • @hmoneoju
    @hmoneoju Год назад +7

    I have been living for 10 years in D8 (and renting half of the time) and I would never ever consider it is an disadvantage area, I feel proud for having lived at the Liberties.... I have an impression some people will always struggle even if they live in the most posh area in Dublin. This being said there are plenty of families that need some economic help

  • @danimetalbq2668
    @danimetalbq2668 3 года назад +22

    You guys should ran for local council at least, and from there you would get more support.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад

      It would do nothing if they were to run because the culture of Ireland simply is not willing to take an interest in anything.
      There is no big secret in any of this government has regulated the current market into existence and yet people as a whole do not want to do anything about. There are Irish people right now cheering on rent controls, wage controls, transport controls and energy controls yet cry about the shortages when they happen.

    • @annedonnellan6876
      @annedonnellan6876 Год назад

      Maybe contact senator lynn ruane?

  • @annequinn4208
    @annequinn4208 3 месяца назад

    Well done boys. You are both very clever and perspective.

  • @grlfcgombeenhunter2897
    @grlfcgombeenhunter2897 2 года назад +5

    Should be a list for only people that grew up in the area.

  • @dublinboy
    @dublinboy Год назад +6

    Nobody can afford to buy where they grew up

  • @scarletred8888
    @scarletred8888 Год назад +5

    Very good video, people should realize that a ‘two bedroom ‘ flat is a three roomed dwelling- these flats are all very small- not suitable for 8 people- the whole situation is disastrous, emigration is rising, so sad

    • @the_padzer3456
      @the_padzer3456 11 месяцев назад

      I think as time passed between 1930-1970, the flats only got smaller. If you look at Herbert simms flats built in thr 30s and 40s, they'll have proper houses, unlike the flats you'd see in the 50s 60s and 70s flats such as ballymun or inchicore

  • @bighands69
    @bighands69 2 года назад +5

    Ireland is not building houses it is restricting them from being built and it has not real idea what it is at. Rent controls are one of the biggest factors that will make housing in Ireland very scarce in years to come.

  • @stevecollins4881
    @stevecollins4881 2 года назад +3

    Well said Terry 💪

  • @lukekelly9616
    @lukekelly9616 Год назад +7

    I remember living in Dolphin House Flats in the '70s and there was a family of 21 kids. They were living in luxury for they had 3 bedrooms! A wonderful family who I hung around with. We were an average family, my mother only had 12 of us, the last one was born in Crumlin.

    • @brownjatt21
      @brownjatt21 Год назад

      21 kids Jesus.

    • @stopbutcheringenglish1951
      @stopbutcheringenglish1951 Год назад

      Is that responsible to make us pay for their kids?

    • @lukekelly9616
      @lukekelly9616 Год назад

      @@stopbutcheringenglish1951
      Whether it's 7 couples with 3 kids or 1 couple with 21 kids they still get children's allowance. Not forgetting some of the eldest were hard workers tax payers before others were born.

    • @stopbutcheringenglish1951
      @stopbutcheringenglish1951 Год назад

      Vermin

    • @tomasomaonaigh7659
      @tomasomaonaigh7659 Год назад +2

      @@stopbutcheringenglish1951 sure you can pay for the "new" Irish now, dose that make you feel better?

  • @bidbadgray
    @bidbadgray Год назад +3

    Build a community centre. Form a committee(repossession of one or two of those empty flats) constitute an agreement 🤝

  • @austingleeson2657
    @austingleeson2657 2 года назад +20

    The residents love the place so much they treat it like a kip.

  • @edouard598
    @edouard598 2 года назад +3

    Very interesting video

  • @healthydee381
    @healthydee381 Год назад +12

    Mass immigration has hollowed out and destroyed the North inner city. The government had let that area down badly. God love the locals.

  • @imnothere220
    @imnothere220 3 года назад +31

    "you had to learn to fight"...well yeah, and that's why gentrification never robbed my mam and beat her up outside the flats.

    • @BrokenOptimus7
      @BrokenOptimus7 3 года назад +11

      "you had to learn to fight"..."great community"... Wonder since when TheJournal started to promote violence?

  • @controversialist01
    @controversialist01 Год назад +1

    This video is the best for my Irish accent training

  • @simonnolan2063
    @simonnolan2063 Год назад +6

    Gentrification is happening all around the south inner city. Community’s are being lost. The middle class are moving in. The worst part of it is they are looking down on people who lived in the area all their lives. ( looking at you thinking what are you doing living around here)

    • @karlbyrne6021
      @karlbyrne6021 Год назад +3

      Totally agree with you. The liberties are full of yuppies now.

    • @simonnolan2063
      @simonnolan2063 Год назад +1

      @@karlbyrne6021 👍

  • @tomgazebobob1503
    @tomgazebobob1503 2 года назад +8

    These two seem to be the genuine article and if that's the case it is a disgrace to their country and its politicians.
    I left that city in '54 to escape a dysfunctional family at 14.5 y.o.a.Two shillings a week he was paying as rent.Nuff said.As a result I will never see the hole again.

  • @paulbutler8985
    @paulbutler8985 2 года назад +11

    Well spoken dublin is no longer belonged to the dubliners

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 2 года назад +7

      Yup. And you could say the same about everywhere else in Ireland too. Neoliberalism.

    • @brownjatt21
      @brownjatt21 Год назад +1

      @@cigh7445 yup every major city almost same case nowadays.

    • @Koi-addict33
      @Koi-addict33 Год назад

      Ireland doesn't either

  • @sugarpuff2978
    @sugarpuff2978 Год назад +4

    It's the same here in England but we've also got thousands upon thousands of illegal immigrants here. They don't get sent home but get put in five star hotels. They get benefits and free NHS care that they've never even paid in for all the while British people are really suffering. If I put this comment on a page full of Brits I would be shouted down for being racist. We are not allowed a voice here and it's absolutely disgusting.

    • @the_padzer3456
      @the_padzer3456 Год назад +1

      England also has way more ghettos than Ireland

    • @the_padzer3456
      @the_padzer3456 Год назад

      But there definitely used to be some really bad ghettos in Ireland, mostly Dublin

    • @the_padzer3456
      @the_padzer3456 Год назад

      Sorry mate replied to the wrong comment

  • @D.Sheridan
    @D.Sheridan 2 года назад +5

    100% Agree.

  • @ciaranmccusker8809
    @ciaranmccusker8809 2 года назад +4

    Fairplay to the lads I'm from ballymun the flats are the best memory's ever

  • @marcrich176
    @marcrich176 3 года назад +14

    Some good points made on this but dalkey and Blackrock were gentrified too.both had large numbers of council and laborours homes and cottages.both had working class areas similar to sallynoggin monkstown ballybrack

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад +2

      None of this really has anything to do with gentrification. Ireland as a whole has an over regulated housing, banking and jobs market. Which in turn has created centralization of everything.
      People cannot expect a government to regulate shortages and then somehow expect the exact same government solve the problem that they created.

    • @londonlady1966
      @londonlady1966 Год назад

      My mother was born in Dalkey as was her siblings, Ardeevin Cottage.
      Yes the place was certainly gentrified over the last couple of decades, I saw it happen when visiting.
      One of my Uncles still live on Ard Brugh hill.... but you can't buy property for love nor money.

    • @rachelmoran2205
      @rachelmoran2205 Год назад +3

      @@bighands69 Stoneybatter and Smithfield are perfect examples of areas where the locals who've lived there for forty and fifty years don't recognise the culture that's sprang up around them, and couldn't afford to partake in it even if they wanted to. The upmarket cafes selling overpriced lattes have replaced the greasy spoons, there are restaurants where the fresh fish shop and the second hand bookstores used to be. The new apartment blocks that sit on the sites of the markets where they used to buy their fruit and vegetables are filled with people who wouldn't have *walked* through the area thirty years ago. People are pushed out physically or pushed out culturally, and it has everything to do with gentrification.

    • @malmoran8643
      @malmoran8643 Год назад

      For sure not with love but with money you can certainly buy property in Dalkey. That's why it's ruined now and forever.

  • @johndorney7812
    @johndorney7812 Год назад +2

    This makes me sad. I hate the way Dublin is going.

  • @KENKENNIFF
    @KENKENNIFF Месяц назад

    I have colleagues in Manchester looking for housing in Blackpool. Its like a famine, where people hear rumours of food 15 miles away and walk there to get fed.

  • @davidjazay9248
    @davidjazay9248 2 года назад +6

    Dublin is so cruel these days and shitting on smart lads like these and thereby shitting on its future. Sad.

    • @Koi-addict33
      @Koi-addict33 Год назад

      They are importing the new future

  • @anthonydowling3356
    @anthonydowling3356 13 дней назад

    When i attended St .Marys C.BS.school opposite these flats in 1960 to 1965 that area was just an open field .We lived up in Phibsborough and were lucky enough to have a house and garden.

  • @toffeeghirl3062
    @toffeeghirl3062 Год назад +1

    Exactly the same here in Liverpool.

  • @alanfurlong-drummer4419
    @alanfurlong-drummer4419 Год назад +2

    Well done lads good luck with ‘ya talkin bollix’

  • @Vlay76
    @Vlay76 Год назад +2

    You lads wouldn't have a problem anywhere you go.Try opening up a pub in Portugal and the rest of us will catch up in a blink of an eye! 🤠

  • @UsacHunt
    @UsacHunt 2 года назад +7

    Politicians have surrendered National sovereignty to International banks. Politicians represent everything and everyone else not the Irish. What's with the Dub Reggae music?

  • @eddiestaunton514
    @eddiestaunton514 Год назад +1

    Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines.... Fair play to these lads

  • @conorcrosbie9338
    @conorcrosbie9338 Год назад +2

    Accept it. Ireland will never change.

  • @iankennedy1441
    @iankennedy1441 Год назад +2

    my auntie had 13kids in a 2 bed flat in bridgefud street flats

  • @pablojablo6371
    @pablojablo6371 Год назад +1

    The old tennies like this in Liverpool are now student accomodation .

  • @stephenohara6313
    @stephenohara6313 Год назад +3

    well done lads..cudnt hav said it better meself...its a disgrace the way this govt. treats the very people who built this nation.

  • @innvforty7348
    @innvforty7348 2 года назад +11

    Ok, so after watching this I am totally conflicted because I have been trying to move from South Africa to Ireland for years now...it doesn't seem like its a good idea after seeing this video.

    • @beneadie3202
      @beneadie3202 2 года назад +11

      As someone who lives in Dublin I can assure you that knocking the council flats in the city center and moving them out to the suburbs is very much in your interest as a foreigner. Each one essentially has its own gang that loiters around the city center causing trouble. The cost of living is high here but these guys are complaining about mostly silly stuff and trying to act like victims of the state when they grew up in free accommodation on some of the most expensive land in Europe.

    • @sineadmairenibhriain1468
      @sineadmairenibhriain1468 2 года назад +4

      Ireland is much more than it's inner cities. I live in Donegal, near a town large enough to find work, paying affordable rent and surrounded by some of the most stunning countryside in the world.

    • @rachelmoran2205
      @rachelmoran2205 Год назад +1

      ​@@beneadie3202 Council housing is not free; you're showing your ignorance there. It's means tested and rented at a percentage of the tenants income. Also these families have been living in Dublin's inner city for long loooooong before this was some of the most expensive land in Europe. The history of Dublin's tenement dwellers, that these families are descended from, dates back to the 1600's at least. The last of the Dublin tenements were levelled in the 1970's. These flats were built in the early 1960's. They were occupied these last six decades by tenement people and their descendants. There's nothing silly in the grievance involved when you're thrown out of your home in the city your people have lived in for centuries so that greedy developers can build apartments and hotels to stuff full of people who've got fcukall historical connection to this city, or in many cases to this country for that matter.

    • @beneadie3202
      @beneadie3202 Год назад

      @@rachelmoran2205 ya I'm aware. It's essentially free... If you don't own it it's not yours. Able bodied people living off the state is a really shameful thing and it's sad you're defending them like they're noble people. If what you're saying is that people in council flats should be allowed to preserve their way of life because they've been doing it for generations I really pity you. Being unable to provide for yourself and raising kids to live the same is truly shameful. Breaking up these communities, although my primary concern is for the normal people paying their way through life, would be the best thing for them given the amount of crime taking place amongst the youth of the inner city.

    • @rachelmoran2205
      @rachelmoran2205 Год назад +1

      @@beneadie3202 Again, council housing is not free. It's means tested and rented at a percentage of the tenants income. Are you seriously telling me you're so ignorant of communities in Dublin's inner city that you assume they all live on social welfare? Why do you assume that?

  • @user-xg4df5dy5h
    @user-xg4df5dy5h 5 месяцев назад

    I come from Ballymun and I also have been around all the flats in the North Inner City it’s your only your mentality that keeps you back got people live and have always lived in the flats in the N I C remember this

    • @FerdarPleaseSubscribe
      @FerdarPleaseSubscribe 4 месяца назад

      Is there a decline in the quantity of mentality during recessions?

  • @pmacc3557
    @pmacc3557 Год назад +1

    The brilliant politicians obviously don't want to fix the "housing crisis"

  • @ciarancarroll
    @ciarancarroll 7 месяцев назад +1

    How does it work in the flats? Do you pay rent to the government?

  • @thinkofitthisway7804
    @thinkofitthisway7804 8 месяцев назад +1

    Listen from 1.25 to 2.10, the guy explains what is going on in his little corner of Dublin. And, if truth is told, it is happening in every big and small town in every country these days. It is a manipulation that people need to wise up to.

  • @eoghancasey2909
    @eoghancasey2909 2 года назад +10

    Emigrate down the country brethren, learn to surf, houses chape, beautiful environment

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад +7

      The houses are not cheaper down the country. They are only cheap when compared to city wages.

    • @Liammulli
      @Liammulli Год назад

      No thanks stay where you are

  • @grlfcgombeenhunter2897
    @grlfcgombeenhunter2897 2 года назад +2

    Old Ireland 🇮🇪 is gone and never to be seen again unfortunately.

  • @erwinrommel9165
    @erwinrommel9165 4 месяца назад

    Yup the flats. Nothing but student accommodation springing up around that area, once the luas line went down it was game over for Domnick street and Dorset Street flats.

  • @sidewindersid4180
    @sidewindersid4180 3 года назад +21

    I agree with what these lads are saying, however, ya know, heroin was a contributing factor, which i beleive was intentionally used to create this situation.

    • @cheiftain732
      @cheiftain732 3 года назад +8

      Heroin only came to places like this . Its a life of no hope mental stress whole familys out of work . Empty bellys its no fluke heroin hit all poor areas first and hardest .

    • @imahappycamper2022
      @imahappycamper2022 3 года назад +5

      I doubt it was introduced solely to create these social problems. It also was a contributing factor to the homeless crisis, but it wasn't the only thing. Plenty of homeless now are working people who just cant afford to pay rents despite being on a good wage. I've even met a Dr who's homeless.

  • @TrippEdits
    @TrippEdits 2 месяца назад

    Crazy in 2024 this problem has managed to go exponentially worse

  • @emilygooner9697
    @emilygooner9697 Год назад +1

    Same everywhere now nobody can buy a home near their family

  • @stephenirons1892
    @stephenirons1892 2 года назад +3

    Nothing stays the same forever, unfortunately.

  • @timward3116
    @timward3116 Год назад +3

    Regarding the people having to emigrate, my grandparents from Roscommon, Westmeath, and Galway emigrated and eventually made a good life in Chicago. But that was a century ago, and the opportunities are far less now in the US. It's interesting that many of their grandchildren are worse off than they were. It's a crisis spanning many countries: Investors buying up everything and turning everyone into virtual slaves of unfortunate circumstances... and all with the help of the politicians, businesses, banks, and a media that decides what not to report. I'm doing okay (for now), but so many aren't. The rich, they do get richer... but few crumbs fall from the table for the rest of us. I dare say there might not be a peaceful, democratic solution.

    • @oh_rhythm
      @oh_rhythm Год назад +1

      It does seem like greedy capitalism is nearing critical mass.
      Wouldn't be the first time humans are pushing human nature to it's limits.

  • @theresam2409
    @theresam2409 2 года назад +3

    The place looks like a concrete jungle-Brutalist architecture.
    Where's the green"
    What they describe as continuity is actually stagnant conditions that make it hard for people to actually move on.

  • @UNKN0WN_1
    @UNKN0WN_1 Год назад +1

    Hold on.. are you saying to me that tenants of social housing programme have an issue when their occupancy is over?
    That 380 a month rent goes up?

  • @thekillingfieldsable
    @thekillingfieldsable Год назад +1

    Great video...proud to be lrish...all politicians should be up against a wall.

  • @thekillingfieldsable
    @thekillingfieldsable Год назад +2

    Don't blame the immigrants, blame the politicians.

  • @Dublinireland5
    @Dublinireland5 6 месяцев назад +1

    Ireland has been caught up in the Refugee crisis unfortunately, but not all of these people are genuine refugees, need to get a rebate from the European Union, for the size of Ireland taking into consideration that England are still temporary caretakers in the North, there are too many refugees

  • @lamalama9717
    @lamalama9717 Час назад

    Interesting. It's the same here in New Zealand. Our population size is similar to Ireland, but we have X4 the number of homeless than them and rent is sky high.

  • @tallwaters9708
    @tallwaters9708 2 года назад +11

    I kinda wish people like this were in government, you know, people who actually represent the average person, not people like Leo who are so privilaged they've never been on the dole

    • @kjh4496
      @kjh4496 2 года назад +8

      Most people have never been on the dole because most people work. There are more working people in Ireland than people on welfare. What makes someone privilege is when they come from money/opportunity and that’s not regular working people. On the flip side privilege is also earned by hard work so it’s not always so black and white.

    • @tallwaters9708
      @tallwaters9708 2 года назад +5

      @@kjh4496
      Leo is a "white" guy born into a rich doctor family in a democratic country, he really got everything. The guy went to a fancy boarding school that would've cost 100k+ for his secondary education. I'm sorry, but if you think that represent the average person, you're just plain wrong.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 года назад +2

      Unless Irish people decide to vote in politicians that favor the free market and small government nothing will change.
      Ireland has always been a highly regulated market place hence why prices were always so high. This generation of Irish people think they have it bad where their parents and grandparents would have face property prices that were 6 times their salaries with interest rates of about 20% to 40%.

    • @Koi-addict33
      @Koi-addict33 Год назад

      He is against you as a people it isn't because of privelage lol it's a hatred

    • @Koi-addict33
      @Koi-addict33 Год назад

      ​@@tallwaters9708white 😂😂😂😂

  • @stopbutcheringenglish1951
    @stopbutcheringenglish1951 Год назад +9

    Rent is high. Why should a tiny percentage of locals get subsidised housing that causes a cycle of poverty and drug addiction, while other people from the US, UK, Canada and dozens of other countries come here without the benefit of free housing and family to sponge off of have to pay their way in society? Wah, wah, wah.
    Why should you be given anything? Work for it. Should you be having a family when you won't knuckle down? Should your parents have spawned when they could not afford to raise children? Should you spawn when you can't even support yourself? Perhaps, people who have children who can't even take care of themselves should stop being paid to do so off the back of other hard working people's taxes; off of working people who are struggling to stay afloat and save themselves.
    It's the flats, generous welfare and welfare fraud that created this cycle in the first place. The flats are an encouragement and a subsidy to laziness, antisocial behavior and drug dealing quite frankly. They are a curse on the real working class.
    You have a good paying job and can't afford to move out? BS. You don't want to get a roommate if needed and be like a man living in your own and be independent. There are plenty of Irish and Europeans like this. It's called being a mammy's boy. You want to eat out, buy phones, take trips and wear designer drip so you work and stay at home while mammy does the wash and cooks.
    This is not limited to people from the flats. You can find plenty in their 20'S and 30's even from D4, D6 Dun L etc. like this Peter pans and Peter pams. Rocking the IG and TikTok hard but mammy still folds your underwear. It's a European disgrace and starting to see it creep into North America.
    Infantile. Pathetic. Soft spoiled navel-gazing, pityparty free loaders. Shouldn't be surprised, they've learned over generations that the squeaky wheel gets the oil. I hear the Wahambulance coming.

    • @craigd2352
      @craigd2352 Год назад +6

      Very ignorant comment, I live in flats my whole life never dealed drugs or done drugs, I’ve fought in martial arts my whole life and I teach martial arts, I’ve been to college thankfully with t he help of foundations that give assistance to payments, and where am I? Still in flats. You say move in with room mates as if that’s what we should be grateful for? Why move out of an overcrowded flat to move into another small flat and pay half a wage to just keep shelter and most likely be sharing it with a stranger, also if we do move out of the flats the rent increases dramatically it’s actually smarter to live with our mas, before recession the houses were cheaper and rent wasn’t so spiked, the housing crisis has spiked because 70% of our government are landlords and have sold our public land to companies and businesses to buy off and build their own properties, and landlords buy the properties and sell of to tenants for a duisgustingly high price that is unfair and yes people will pay because they have no choice they have to work 2 jobs to pay it or else be homeless like where most others have been thrown, not all of us are dealt easy hands and with how our current government are treating us the country is gonna be even worse, do not speak of anybody from flats if you do not have the experience, politicians need to be restricted from becoming landlords especially since there the ones making rules on property tax and incomes, and cost of living, their gonna drive the country to a revolution.

    • @MrLeadb1
      @MrLeadb1 6 дней назад

      lol....But it's OK to house hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and undocumented immigrants on the taxpayer's dime.....the vast majority of those who lived in the flats in inner city Dublin worked for a living.

  • @patricketienne2579
    @patricketienne2579 Год назад +1

    People die. It changes everything. You are NOT being pushed out - it's all just the passing of time.

  • @taxiacademy4899
    @taxiacademy4899 11 месяцев назад

    Fifty years ago I lived in Vicar Street and couldn’t use my own address. I had to use my grannies which was only about 100m away.

  • @fdoy
    @fdoy Год назад +1

    It's the same in the US. Once again the landlords are jacking up the rents so high people need roommates to survive.

  • @UNKN0WN_1
    @UNKN0WN_1 Год назад +1

    Why should you expect to carry on living in the same place and to receive from governament a house or apartment just because your parents for whatever reason got something from the state?
    State help them so that you do not have to live of the public money..

  • @peakseamus
    @peakseamus Год назад +3

    Bizarre point on student accommodation..... Easy for folk brought up close to 3rd level institutions I suppose. Moral of the story, free or close to free flats for anyone brought up in one so they can live close to their gran. FFS

  • @patrickscott838
    @patrickscott838 Год назад +2

    Irish out migrants in!

  • @dmac7492
    @dmac7492 2 года назад +1

    You Lad’s are 💯bang on right. Look at Ballymun ruined. Students have the best of everything and all different nationalities are housed before our own people unfortunately. I’m sorry about having to say that cause I’m not racist at all I just say what I see. I have a lot of different nationals as friends 💯And some of them are my real good friends. They are as Irish as me facts 🇮🇪💚☘️👌☝️🤞🤘🙏🙏🙏👍

  • @tomasomaonaigh7659
    @tomasomaonaigh7659 Год назад +1

    Check out the Kalargi plan, might make more sense 🇮🇪

  • @billoconnor3326
    @billoconnor3326 2 года назад +1

    " we used to have to change our address to get a job, now we have to change our job..............I've told people about this happening in early 80s for residents of some north side corporation estates and they don't believe me ( the address) .......: To the lads a question if you see this....was/is still the case in recent times in Dublin......shame another brain drain era.......

  • @Juliukas101
    @Juliukas101 Год назад

    Calvin was as fit as f*! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @john-yu3bq
    @john-yu3bq 2 года назад

    14years on a housing list Calvin was Ina class below me I can't get housed wats d difference between me and Calvin education no area no judged on standerd of perants not d individual looking all about who ur family are r related to

  • @bam1742
    @bam1742 2 года назад +1

    4:32: Nailed it. Always tought the same looking at these posh kids kipping the night in town.

  • @biospeak
    @biospeak 3 года назад +12

    I'd love to know what other countries would offer you a good job and house no problem. Please let me know , preferably with a sunnier climate.

    • @johnwoodley2034
      @johnwoodley2034 3 года назад +6

      What you mean another, Ireland does not offer that.

    • @oneill765
      @oneill765 Год назад

      Google it so

  • @MrSoldierperson
    @MrSoldierperson Год назад +2

    Chicago's equivalent to The Projects.

  • @JuiceTerry87
    @JuiceTerry87 7 месяцев назад

    I'm British of Irish descent. The frustrating thing about Irish independence is that it still maintains an almost identical political and economic system to the UK, which has all of the same problems. Policy geared around rentiers over people.

  • @mrbigbosskojak
    @mrbigbosskojak 5 месяцев назад

    He's puttin on that accent. Fair play.

  • @user-nc4rm8iv8j
    @user-nc4rm8iv8j 7 месяцев назад +1

    Why do you think you are owed a house from the Government ?
    Young, healthy, no excuses

    • @FerdarPleaseSubscribe
      @FerdarPleaseSubscribe 4 месяца назад

      Because housing should be a right, you need one to live. These days, houses have been turned into a commodity to be bough and sold by the rich.

  • @briantravers6968
    @briantravers6968 Год назад +4

    The sense of entitlement is beyond belief.

    • @rachelmoran2205
      @rachelmoran2205 Год назад +2

      Everyone's entitled to their own home that they've lived in all their lives, ffs

    • @briantravers6968
      @briantravers6968 Год назад

      @@rachelmoran2205 no they’re not.

    • @rachelmoran2205
      @rachelmoran2205 Год назад

      @@briantravers6968 You sound like a very embittered begrudging person. I'm sure it sickens you to know I bought my €400,000 council house on the dart line with enormous back garden for €240,000 under the Tenant Purchase Scheme. 😙

    • @FerdarPleaseSubscribe
      @FerdarPleaseSubscribe 4 месяца назад

      ​why not? @@briantravers6968

  • @cheiftain732
    @cheiftain732 3 года назад +3

    O devany was given away and not 1 of us will get 1 .

  • @denisdowling3971
    @denisdowling3971 2 месяца назад

    How is having Bouncers from Lagos, Lidl security from Mumbai and bar staff from a Brazilian Favela 'Gentrification', exactly??

  • @LarryFogarty
    @LarryFogarty Год назад +1

    fine lads

  • @df289
    @df289 Год назад

    Me heart is breaken so it is.

  • @uwanttono4012
    @uwanttono4012 Год назад +1

    Interesting comments these young guys make, but if accommodation is in such short supply, why are these Dublin Corporation flats being left idle and unoccupied? I don't get it!!