The Dublin land grab - IHN on why DCC is handing over public land to developers @WSMireland
The Dublin land grab - IHN on why DCC is handing over public land to developers  @WSMireland
Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
This Irish Housing Network had a seminar on the land grabs happening on 3 major areas of Dublin at the moment as part of the housing crisis. The seminar was to inform residents and housing campaigners of DCC's plan, and to discuss how we can fight it together.

The Irish Housing Network consists of about 20 local Groups. In the video you will hear an introduction to the excuses for the land grab plans which are rooted in the housing crisis under which there were 6300 people homeless last month not including the hidden homeless. There were also 92,000 mortgage in arrears and almost 2000 repossessions in the last year.

Because local authorities can’t borrow the land grab has come into being on the basis of ‘something is better than nothing’ But it was crafted by DCC and 65 secret interested parties. Secret because DCC but won’t tell us who they are, only that they were mostly developers and others who stand to make profits from housing.

After introducing the land grab there is a presentation on how it will impact the three areas targeted and what residents and campaigners are going about this. You can skip to these at
16 mins - Oscar Traynor Road
26.40 mins - O’Devaney Gardens
37.30 - St Michael’s Estate

You can find the Irish Housing Network at
facebook.com/irishhousingnetwork
and
irishhousingnetwork.org

“The Irish Housing Network has been set up by a collection of housing and homeless groups fighting this ongoing housing and homeless crisis. We believe in the basic premise that housing is a right that should be provided based on need. We aim to share information, resources and coordinate action with groups across the island. Any group can join if they agree with the principles of the network below. The current members are

North Dublin Bay Housing Crisis Committee
Housing Action Now
An-Spreach Housing Action Collective
Social Workers Action Network
The Hub
Help the Hidden Homeless
A Lending Hand
Dublin Central Housing Action
Anti-Racism Network Ireland
Homeless Fightback
Connect the Dots
Wexford Housing Action
D8HAC
Ballymun-Finglas Housing Action
Housing Action Kildare
Fingal Housing Crisis Community
S.P.A.R.K (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of our Kids)
Blanchardstown Housing Action Committee
Clondakin-Lucan Housing Action”
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