For the past few years, the homeless crisis has been at the top of the news, the people of Ireland seem to be blind to the main causes however. If you asked the average Joe Bloggs on the street, he may give you a few reasons for this crisis. 

Many have blamed this on immigration while forgetting that immigrants are in the same boat as us when trying to get a house. 

Some might say that those who are homeless deserve it, because of an addiction or a common argument I’ve seen is that they should just get a better job, or an education. 

Some would say it is the fault of the politicians, while truthful, I’d argue that the government are enablers. As we known, the Irish government does not care about the people, rather they care only for money, and the approval of the European Union. 

Through this they pass acts that allow the landlords to act in immoral ways and leech of the working classes plight. They refuse to introduce a rent control, thus allowing the landlords to continue to raise rent prices and force working men out of their home counties. Many Dublin men have been forced to look for affordable housing out west, this process leaves traditionally working-class towns open to an influx of middle-class families. 

Many government ministers are landlords themselves; this could explain why every policy they continue to introduce seems to only benefit the upper classes. They say they plan on building affordable housing for the masses, yet allow vulture funds to buy them up and charge extortionate prices on even 2-bedroom houses. The average rent prices in Dublin is over two thousand euro a month.  

These prices are borderline criminal for working families never mind single parents who are barely scraping by as it is, the rates in Dublin are extortionate and it needs to be stopped. 

  Landlords are the true leeches of society, although the class they belong to would have you believe otherwise, this is in reality the truth. Landlords are usually born into wealth, and with this wealth for which they have not worked for, they buy up vacant homes and rent them out to good working families, but the landlord doesn’t work, if there is a leak, he calls a plumb, a problem with the electricity, he calls the electrician, but he does no work himself. 

So why do we need landlords? Well we don’t, the only purpose they serve is to terrorize working people and keep us from getting far in life. How could we get far with the looming threat of eviction hanging above our heads? The ‘’profession’’ of being a landlord needs to be abolished if society is to overcome new challenges, this outdated practice holds us in the past. 

To quote Huey Long, ‘’what does one man need two homes for, when they can’t live in them?’’ 

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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