Cork's Crumbling Social Housing: Rent Hikes Meet Rotting Walls

Cork City Council is considering raising rents for social housing residents to fund maintenance on flats riddled with mould, damp, and rodents. If implemented, this would mean vulnerable tenants—already living in homes with major structural defects—could pay more for the privilege. The council's own deputy chief executive Brian Geaney says any rise will be 'poverty proofed', but critics argue that's corporate jargon for squeezing families already struggling to...