Readers Blog: Banning bedsits exacerbated homelessness

The Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA), the national representative body for landlords welcomes, with cautious optimism, the Minister for Housing’s proposed action to allow bedsit accommodation once again.

The IPOA have been calling for this since 2008 when the banning of the traditional bedsit was first announced.

This is not a call for any type of substandard accommodation. The banning of good quality affordable accommodation, because there was no integrated bathroom, was a huge mistake.