Éirígí Activists In North Dublin Highlight The Scourge Of Homelessness Before Cold Snap Bites
Éirígí activists in North Dublin were out last weekend highlighting the scourge of homelessness in the capital and beyond, an issue which is all the more pressing given that temperatures are forecast to drop as low as minus four degrees this week.
Our activists erected a large poster outside the long derelict Dorset Street flat complex that read “Sleeping rough this winter? We don’t care. Brought to you by: Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party”.
Sign erected outside the long derelict Dorset Street flats.
Speaking from East Wall, Éirígí’s representative for Dublin’s North Inner City Gareth Murray said,
“The location for the erection of this sign was chosen because it is a site in which hundreds of former public homes have lain vacant for years, with long mooted plans for the regeneration of this area continuing at a snails pace.”
Murray continued,
“This lack of urgency betrays the indifference of the Twenty-Six County government when it comes to ending the scourge of homelessness in the state. They have no interest in ending homelessness and preventing the deaths of our homeless citizens, as was seen last week with the death of a homeless man close to the Molly Malone statue just across the river.”
Murray concluded,
“The Twenty-Six County government have abandoned their responsibility to directly provide housing to the people, choosing instead to put the interests of parasitic property profiteers ahead of the needs of our people, resulting in the worst housing crisis in generation and record levels of homelessness. The situation is only going to get worse unless the people worst affected by it start fighting back!”
The only system that can end the housing and homelessness crisis once and for all is Universal Public Housing, or UP Housing for short.
UP Housing would provide hundreds of thousands of families with the secure, affordable homes that the current system denies them. Similar systems work successfully in Vienna and other cities across Europe. If it can work there it can work here!
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