UP Housing: Delivering Affordable Secure Homes for All

Two more leaflets from Éirígí, this time for its UP Housing campaign – that is Universal Public Housing.

The first has a short but comprehensive overview of the area. For example there is a Q&A section:

How would UP Housing be paid for?

The cost of building and maintaining UP Housing would be self-funded by the rent that would be paid by mixed-Income tenants and the indirect benefits to the wider economy. Billions of euros of public money that Is currently being handed to private landlords through schemes like HAP would Instead be used to provide families with secure, affordable permanent homes.

And;

How would UP Housing transform Irish society for the better?

The Introduction of UP Housing would do more than end tho housing crisis. It would also lncrease the disposable Income of hundreds of thousands of families and allow them to put down roots in a permanent community. And It would reduce wealth Inequality and break down the damaging class divisions that have flourished under the current system of income segregated housing.

It also outlines ways that readers can help:

• Sign the UP Housing petition at http://www.eirigi.org and encourage your friends to do likewise.
• Share UP Housing content from http://www.eirigi.org on your social media accounts.
• Distribute a batch of these leaflets to your family, friends, neighbours and workmates.
• Help to organise an UP Housing public meeting in your community, college or workplace.

The second is even shorter but amongst other points notes:

The establishment political parties would have you believe that the housing crisis is a relatively recent occurrence. In truth, housing has been in a continuous rolling crisis for over twenty years. Over that time millions of people have been denied access to secure and affordable homes. The collapse of the private housing market in 2007 and subsequent collapse of the private banks left us with mass unemployment, mass emigration and the third highest level of per-capita public debt in the world! Despite everything that has happened, the establishment political parties remain committed to a housing model that is dominated by private developers, private banks and private landlords -a recipe for a housing crisis without end.

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