Three-quarters of Focus Ireland's Cork complex empty six months after 'misunderstood' opening

Focus Housing said: “We are doing everything possible to get the remaining apartments tenanted as quickly as possible."

Focus Housing Association, the property arm of Focus Ireland, outlined its efforts to allocate tenancies in the Lower John St property after an image was posted on social media just before Christmas showing someone bedded down in a sleeping bag outside its front door.

A housing charity says it’s working as fast and safely as it can during Covid to allocate homes in a new-build complex in Cork city where only a quarter of the units are occupied six months after its ‘official opening’.

Focus Housing Association, the property arm of Focus Ireland, outlined its efforts to allocate tenancies in the Lower John St property after an image was posted on social media just before Christmas showing someone bedded down in a sleeping bag outside its front door.