There has been a significant drop in the number of people on waiting lists for social housing in Kilkenny. New figures released by the Department of Housing, Local Governmand and Heritage reveal waiting lists have dropped by 62% over the past five years. Last November there were 656 households in Kilkenny on the waiting list […]
The language of housing is built on class division. If homes are close together and fronted by streets you have a ‘working class ghetto’. Space them out a bit, plant a few trees, and it becomes a ‘desirable suburban development’. It could just as accurately be called a middle-class ghetto. But that won’t happen. The […]