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.

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

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.

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!!

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.

This is great! More of this, please!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Very articulate. I hope they make out well and find their place. As they say: home is where the heart is.

Brilliant pod cast !!

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

So well spoken

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

Nobody can afford to buy where they grew up

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

Well spoken dublin is no longer belonged to the dubliners

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

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

Well said Terry 💪

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.

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

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.

Very interesting video

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

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

100% Agree.

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.

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

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?

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

This video is the best for my Irish accent training

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! 🤠

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.

Exactly the same here in Liverpool.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Well done lads good luck with ‘ya talkin bollix’

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

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

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.

Same everywhere now nobody can buy a home near their family

Nothing stays the same forever, unfortunately.

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.

Accept it. Ireland will never change.

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

Crazy in 2024 this problem has managed to go exponentially worse

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

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.

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..

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.

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

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

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.

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

" 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.......

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 🇮🇪💚☘️👌☝️🤞🤘🙏🙏🙏👍

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!!

Don't blame the immigrants, blame the politicians.

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

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

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

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

And student accommodation (that look like hotels ) put up Right beside these flats, same on gardiner street and summerhill, church st(Right beside Greek st flats)and on and on . Its a smack in the face for the locals . Beyond a joke

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.

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

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.

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

Many a "Wise" word spoken here by these lads................I,m from just across the sea etc..........its like that here...........rents "Risen".........not enough social-housing...............people not wanting in some cases homeless acc. by them.................don,t these people realise homelessness can/does happen to "Anyone" of any background..........................

Me heart is breaken so it is.

The sense of entitlement is beyond belief.

Chicago's equivalent to The Projects.

I have to say tho, people that live in flats treat you with much more respect than people living in the likes of Blackrock.