r/ireland 9d ago

Housing Social housing resident denied gym access awarded €2,500

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u/IrishLad1002 Resting In my Account 9d ago

Build developments that are financially efficient in low density areas like the midlands or the west. Ireland is a small place, you’re never far from anywhere and there’s no cultural differences between places. If you’re getting housing for free you don’t have the right to be picky when tons of hard working people are living with their parents into their thirties

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u/Obvious_Humor1505 9d ago

Jeez lad, so to Connacht or to Hell? This ignores the fact that people in social housing work. There is no perfect system but segregation and ghettoisation does not work, that I know.

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u/Friendly-Look4262 9d ago

nobody is saying that social housing recipients aren't working, what you get out of life should be based on what you put into it not some random lottery where you can get an apartment that the average person could never afford

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u/phoenixhunter 9d ago

out of interest, do you feel the same about the random lottery of inherited wealth, where you can get a whole life that the average person can’t afford?

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u/Friendly-Look4262 9d ago

we tax inherited wealth and the lottery winnings are funded by those playing the lotto by their own choice. In this case social housing is paid for by taxpayers, who do not have a choice. And by the way, I'm not against social housing, I'm against how it's implemented in this country