In these days of a genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza and a widespread blackout in both the mainstream media in the west, and on social media, the choice between a news blackout on Facebook and a polarized, all-or-nothing "discourse" on X, trying to make sense of anything happening in the world that you're not directly witnessing yourself can in many ways be more challenging than ever, oddly enough, in this epoch of supposed "connection."
Amongst other things. In Dublin they pretty much made a list of of areas that have historically been working poor and put a large asylum centers in them full of young men. When people from the local communities objected often with the residents in the centers being in agreement that it was wrong, they were labelled as far right! There are in proportion to the population a huge number of refugees here 100k+ Ukrainians alone in a country of 5 million. We have problems here like a disastrous housing crisis which the government has done little to address. Clearly the question should be if it was possible to mobilise the enormous resources to support 100k refugees why did the government chose not to mobilise resources to solve the housing crisis? Unfortunately many people will feel that they are competing for limited resources with the newcomers. I not sure if this was planned but you couldn't have courted this more if you were trying.
the landlords make money from housing refugees, so i guess it all depends on who wants to solve which problem and why... solving the housing crisis would mean landlords making a lot less profit, whereas housing refugees makes them more money. and yes, how incredibly cynical of them to locate the refugees in the most historically neglected neighborhoods. what could possibly go wrong...?
Amongst other things. In Dublin they pretty much made a list of of areas that have historically been working poor and put a large asylum centers in them full of young men. When people from the local communities objected often with the residents in the centers being in agreement that it was wrong, they were labelled as far right! There are in proportion to the population a huge number of refugees here 100k+ Ukrainians alone in a country of 5 million. We have problems here like a disastrous housing crisis which the government has done little to address. Clearly the question should be if it was possible to mobilise the enormous resources to support 100k refugees why did the government chose not to mobilise resources to solve the housing crisis? Unfortunately many people will feel that they are competing for limited resources with the newcomers. I not sure if this was planned but you couldn't have courted this more if you were trying.
the landlords make money from housing refugees, so i guess it all depends on who wants to solve which problem and why... solving the housing crisis would mean landlords making a lot less profit, whereas housing refugees makes them more money. and yes, how incredibly cynical of them to locate the refugees in the most historically neglected neighborhoods. what could possibly go wrong...?
It'll be another famine next.The rentier economy is a scourge come back to haunt not just Ireland...