Derelict Dublin: Why are there so many rotting buildings in the capital?
Take a five-minute walk in any direction in Dublin city centre and you’ll come across boarded-up, even cemented-over shopfronts, upper floors supported by steel struts and foliage growing through the roof.
Properties in prime locations left to rot in the capital city, in the middle of a housing crises. It doesn’t make any kind of sense.
In theory it should be easy to find out who owns these decaying properties but it’s not. Nor is it straightforward to discover exactly why valuable properties have been left, sometimes for decades, as eyesores.
For a new Irish Times series, Derelict Dublin…
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