This Is The One Map The Dublin Government Never Wants You To See
In too much of a hurry to read the full article? Then go straight to the Track The Vultures map here.
If you have ever visited the Housing Statistics page of the Dublin government’s housing website you’ll know that the Department of Housing collect and publish a lot of statistics. An awful lot.
Construction activity statistics, house price statistics, local authority housing scheme statistics, private housing market statistics, mortgage market statistics, ESB connection statistic, local authority loan statistics, homeless statistics and traveller accommodation statistics - collected, collated and published on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
Hundred upon hundreds of downloadable files containing thousands upon thousands of individual statistics relating to housing. Enough statistics to answer questions that nobody has ever asked and nobody ever will.
Enough statistics to make you think that the Department of Housing must publish statistics on every important aspect of housing. But if you did think that, you’d be wrong.
Lies, damn lies and statistics - a screenshot from the Dublin government website. Statistics on everything but the most important change to Irish housing in decades
Because no matter how hard you look, you’ll find no statistics about the most important change that has happened in Irish housing in decades - the arrival of corporate mega-landlords, aka the vulture landlords.
You won’t find any statistics relating to how many Irish homes are now owned by the vulture landlords or any statistics about how many homes the vultures are currently building or any statistics about the number of homes that the vulture landlords have already secured planning permission for.
You won’t find those statistic because the government has deliberately chosen to NOT record or publish any statistics relating to the vultures takeover of Irish housing. By doing so they hoped to hide both the scale and the negative impact of the vulture takeover. But unluckily for the government, one organisation decided to do its own research into the vulture takeover.
That organisation wasn’t a Leinster House political party or a media outlet or a housing charity or a university department. That organisation was Éirígí For A New Republic.
The Track The Vultures map is a one of a kind interactive map the pinpoints the locations of over 38,000 vulture-owned homes
The Track The Vultures project, which was launched back in October 2020, set out to publicly identify every vulture-owned housing development in the country. In February 2021, the Track The Vultures map was launched - an interactive map that geolocates the exact locations of vulture-owned housing developments across Ireland.
These housing developments are broken into the three categories of homes that are fully built, homes that are under construction and homes that have been granted planning permission - thus tracking the entire conveyor belt that is delivering vast numbers of Irish homes to the vultures.
Following the latest update to the Track The Vultures map earlier this month, it now contains a staggering 38,314 homes spread across more than 185 locations. And that’s why Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar, Eamon Ryan and the other gombeens never want you to see the Track The Vultures Map.
They don’t want you to see the scale of the vulture takeover that they have not only facilitated, but actively encouraged.
Éirígí activists outside the vulture-owned Fernbank apartments in Dundrum, South Dublin, May 2021
Éirígí has been to the fore of the push back against the vulture takeover of Irish housing in recent years. At a community and national level we’ve been tracking, highlighting and opposing these catastrophic process.
Unlike the Leinster House political parties - in government and opposition - the Éirígí position on the vultures is crystal clear - there is no place for any corporate landlords in Irish housing.
If you’re ready to join the fight AGAINST the vulture landlords and their gombeen political fixers and FOR housing justice and a New Republic, then you should give some serious thought to joining Éirígí.