Peter McVerry Trust to renovate flats on Townsend Street which have been empty since 2011
When completed in mid-2024 there will be 20 one-bed apartments – considerably larger than the current dwellings – over four storeys. They will be allocated to households on Dublin City Council’s housing list with a proportion going to long-term rough sleepers under the Housing First Scheme
Peter McVerry Trust are refurbishing and rebuilding flats on Townsend Street as social housing. Photograph: Alan Betson Dr Cameron added: “There is a great want of healthy dwellings in the neighbourhood and if proper dwellings were erected... there would be an immediate demand for them.”In October 1905 the corporation sanctioned £4,450 to purchase and demolish the buildings and to build three, four-storey blocks, with five three-room flats on the ground floor, and fifteen two-room flats above.
At the top floor, there are holes through the roof with pigeon feathers and bird excrement everywhere. On the floor, a newly-hatched chick is alive in a nest.