Ireland’s housing system is in disrepair, largely due to ineffective government policies to regulate short-term letting on platforms such as Airbnb and Booking. com.
My graphic shows 21,913 entire homes listed on Airbnb’s short-term letting platform in Ireland. Within Ireland’s Gaeltacht areas in Cork, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Meath, Mayo, and Waterford, there are 6,201 entire-home Airbnb listings.
These properties, alongside thousands of long-vacant holiday homes owned by wealthy investors for short-term rentals, are forcing native Irish speakers out of their communities. The resulting housing squeeze has left seasonal workers, including waiters, bar staff, chefs, and musicians, unable to find accommodation. In the midst of a housing crisis, a record 17,548 people, including 11,944 adults and 5,604 children, are accessing state-funded emergency accommodation across Ireland.
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@SholaMos1 I live in Belfast: this is 100% racism from a very obvious group. It’s not just black people they attacked, Asians, Ukraines and even Turks.
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.
A video that the world must never forget.
Next month Belfast will be full of people chanting about being “up to their knees in fenian blood”. Tonight Belfast will be full of those same people pretending to care about a “fenian” being brutally attacked in violent attack to promote their racism and other even more people.