The housing crisis in Dublin may make more headlines, but the problem is not confined to just the capital with the combination of rising rents and shortage of housing stock is putting greater strain on local authorities throughout the country to provide social housing. One such local authority is Cork County Council and one woman who has been waiting for social housing for more than a decade is Margaret O’Driscoll who lives with her daughter Sylvia and her partner, Issac Hussein Said and the couple’s two-year-old daughter Mia. “We’re living in a two-bedroom council bungalow here in Scartagh in...
↧