Its the Empties Stoopid (Part the XVI, The Map)

[2Pack]

This from the Irelandafternama blog, note that completely empty estates are not counted AT ALL in this work of Green genius by Ciarán Cuffe.

Note further that none were built before 2007.

Finally note that no work has been done on the one offs.

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[johnnyskeleton]

It’s a bit of propaganda. If you were to look at absolute numbers, there would be a great shift towards the cities. Because while there were a disproportionate number of ghost estates in the less occupied s.23 counties, Dublin has more empties than other counties in absolute numbers.

It’s easy to say “sure all the empties are in Leitrim, let’s ignore them”. It’s much harder to ignore all the empties in our cities, which could be occupied but aren’t.

[Dubhgeannain]

€5m fund made available to fix up unfinished estates

UP to 350 housing estates are so badly unfinished that they are dangerous, an investigation has found.

From today, local authorities can draw down €5m from a government emergency fund set up to help make the so-called ‘ghost estates’ safer for residents and their children.

The State will give an initial €5m to local authorities to carry out safety improvements involving up to 8,000 homes in these estates.

However, this works out at an average of just €14,000 per estate and it will be up to a new government to decide whether more money will be made available.

A total of 348 of the 2,846 ghost estates nationwide were identified as having high public safety risks by the Advisory Group on Unfinished Housing Development.

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independent.ie/national-news … 46304.html

[RandomAccess]

@johnnyskeleton

It’s a bit of propaganda. If you were to look at absolute numbers, there would be a great shift towards the cities. Because while there were a disproportionate number of ghost estates in the less occupied s.23 counties, Dublin has more empties than other counties in absolute numbers.

It’s easy to say “sure all the empties are in Leitrim, let’s ignore them”. It’s much harder to ignore all the empties in our cities, which could be occupied but aren’t.

Yeah, the ratio of homes which appear to be executors sales in Dublin is pretty astounding.

[2Pack]

Naturally that €5m was never spent so Phil Hogan gets to announce it again. The only interesting news is that of the 350 estates that will get €5m spent on them…a whopping €15,000 each or so 180 of the 350 have been abandoned by their developers AND ARE NOT IN RECEIVERSHIP!! Many of the other 170 estates are in the hands of receivers with relatively few in the hands of nominally trading entities.

irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire … 78637.html

The local authorities were then asked to assess the report and identify which estates had been abandoned by developers, with no receivers appointed.

These 180 are now categorised as most in need of intervention to resolve their safety problems as the local authorities have been unable to get any developer, site owner or other party to take responsibility for their condition.

While local authorities would be funded to tackle public safety hazards, “irresponsible developers” who had abandoned estates and “their funders” would be made to honour their obligations, Mr Penrose said.

“Any expenditure approved by my department must be ultimately recouped from the existing or future owners and developers of such sites in order to protect the public purse.”

Irresponsible developers and Honour Willie ??? Pahhhh