Wednesday 28 March 2012

IRSP Activists Continue Housing Campaign in Derry

Rosemount


Rosemount

Rosemount

Crawford Square

Apartments in Crawford Square. 
This apartment block is 80% EMPTY because these are bank repossessions!   

Foyle Road

Patrick Street

Friday 9 March 2012

House the Homeless - WEXFORD


IRSP activists were busy this week postering vacant properties that could be used to "House the Homeless". With public housing lists at breaking point and families forced into the private sector the party has been actively promoting the idea that empty properties could be taken into public ownership and converted to habitable standards in order to ease the strain on public housing lists. 



Publicity for public meeting in Wexford

The IRSP in Wexford have been busy highlighting the upcoming meeting in the town aimed at establishing an association for tenants of private landlords in the area. Party activists have been delivering leaflets in the areas with a high density of private tenants in order to make people aware of the meeting. Posters were erected around Wexford town as well.






Tuesday 6 March 2012

Empty houses to be postered - North Belfast News

An empty property that was postered in a similar fashion by the Republican Socialist Youth Movement


http://belfastmediagroup.com/empty-houses-to-be-postered/

5 March 2012


The Irish Republican Socialist party (IRSP) has vowed to poster every empty house in North Belfast in a bid to highlight the number of homes sitting unoccupied despite housing need in the area being at crisis point.
Last month Finance Minister Sammy Wilson revealed that in North Belfast almost 2000 homes lie unoccupied. The minister said in the Duncairn area alone a total of 594 homes are lying empty.
In January the North Belfast News revealed that 2403 people are on the current Housing Executive waiting list, 966 of those on the list are Catholic, 454 people are Protestant and 983 are either described as another religion or religion undisclosed.
Paul Little from the IRSP said they will be putting posters on every derelict property in North Belfast to highlight the fact that the housing waiting list would be dramatically reduced if the empty homes were handed over to those on the list.
“The fact that there are close to 2000 empty properties while so many people are sitting on the waiting list is just a disgrace,” he said.
“There are people who have been on the waiting list for years who have no hope of getting rehoused while these properties just sit going to waste. This is an issue that needs to be highlighted by everyone.
“I know there is work going on to try and reduce the housing waiting list but more needs to be done. The solution is that there are good houses sitting empty while the waiting list grows.”
He said by rehousing people in the empty properties it will reduce the waiting list as well as improve the local communities.
“It will not only mean that the waiting list will go down but the neighbours of these derelict houses know that they attract antisocial behaviour,” he said,
“If they were handed over for people to live in it would stop kids gathering them and bring and end any antisocial behaviour. It is time this was brought to an end.”