Dublin City Council are "extremely limited" in buying a city centre apartment block which would prevent over 100 tenants from facing homelessness, a council chief has said.
Tenants in Tathony House apartment block, in Dublin 8, protested outside City Hall calling for the local authority to buy the property. The landlord decided to sell the entire building and served tenants with eviction notices.
Under a recently introduced law, where a landlord proposes to sell ten or more units within a single multi-unit development within a period of six months, that sale will be subject to the existing tenants remaining in situ. However, the landlord argued in the eviction notices he is exempt from this law because it would cause him "undue hardship" to sell the building with the tenants in situ.
