Private residents fear local authority’s lease plan ‘strikes wrong balance’

RESIDENTS of a private housing development have complained after a local authority leased more than 50 neighbouring units for social housing.

Cork’s city manager Joe Gavin defended the city’s social housing policy amid concerns it is striking the wrong balance in certain areas.

Mr Gavin made his comments after it emerged that the city has leased 53 units in the Eden development in Blackrock to rent them to people on the city’s social housing waiting list.