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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on June 29, 2023, 06:05:37 pm

Title: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on June 29, 2023, 06:05:37 pm
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/quarter-dublin-homeless-charitys-beds-27223215.amp (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/quarter-dublin-homeless-charitys-beds-27223215.amp)
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: Octavia1 on June 29, 2023, 06:08:51 pm
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/quarter-dublin-homeless-charitys-beds-27223215.amp (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/quarter-dublin-homeless-charitys-beds-27223215.amp)

Can we even imagine the suicide rates that are coming and have occurred
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: watty on June 29, 2023, 06:41:22 pm
Very sad if true.

I remember years ago when I did mostly street work driving guys living in council bedsits up around the NCR Phoenix Park end.  They used to say they were on the housing list but, because they were single males, they would be officially waiting 14 or 15 years on the housing list before they got a flat.  And that was back when bedsits were a thing.
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: Bubba Ho-Tep on June 29, 2023, 06:45:47 pm
Large %  are foreign nationals.
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: silverbullet on June 29, 2023, 11:33:46 pm
I'd hazard a guess they're renting the taxis too - and like accommodation, rent doesn't come cheap.
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: mercenary for hire on June 30, 2023, 10:36:08 am
It's a valid strategy IMO and I don't feel too sorry for them.If you're in the system as homeless you get fastracked for social housing as yis all know.Much cheaper to wait for an offer from the corpo, even if it takes a few years being technically homeless than trying it get 300k off the bank for a gaff.
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: John m on June 30, 2023, 11:10:34 am
The housed homeless are the real problem .Years of paying the same person rent and when they decide or when they die the gaff is sold and you are living in your car or a homeless hostel .Friend of mine rented an appartment in Inchicore for twenty years paid the mortgage for the owner when he died the kids sold it mate moved to Westmeath where he could find something he could afford to rent .
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 30, 2023, 02:11:15 pm
Migrants?
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: watty on June 30, 2023, 02:53:43 pm
According to the Minister for Housing, Darragh O'Brien, this is good news --> Record 12,441 people in emergency accommodation (https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0630/1392033-homeless-figures/)

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Latest figures from the Department of Housing show a total of 12,441 people were in emergency accommodation in May – including 3,699 children.
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: silverbullet on June 30, 2023, 03:44:03 pm
According to the Minister for Housing, Darragh O'Brien, this is good news --> Record 12,441 people in emergency accommodation (https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0630/1392033-homeless-figures/)

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Latest figures from the Department of Housing show a total of 12,441 people were in emergency accommodation in May – including 3,699 children.
That's an awful lot of absentee fathers.
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 01, 2023, 03:33:55 pm
How come the other 99.998% of the population can house itself?
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: silverbullet on July 01, 2023, 03:36:20 pm
Has any Mick come up with a package where you can rent a taxi and a mattress? 8)
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 01, 2023, 03:45:48 pm
Doesn't Noel Ebbs offer weekabout on taxi rentals and bedsits? A client was telling me the other week he got a taxi from DAP and when the immigrant driver opened the boot his co-driver was  in there sleeping.
Title: Re: homeless accommodation riddled with taxi drivers
Post by: silverbullet on July 03, 2023, 05:02:33 pm
Doesn't Noel Ebbs offer weekabout on taxi rentals and bedsits? A client was telling me the other week he got a taxi from DAP and when the immigrant driver opened the boot his co-driver was  in there sleeping.
If legends are to be believed they stay above on Edmondstown Road.

If it was a "Rale oul Dub" he'd charge at least one Euro for the extra passenger.