Open drug use, filth, discarded drug paraphernalia and sometimes unconscious drug addicts are not conditions to raise young children in.
However, one young family faces this "nightmare" on their doorstep every time they leave their city centre home. For the last 18 months, Karol Wisniewski, his partner Paulina Kepinska and their children Julia, 7, and Sabina, 4, have been living in what they describe as a "dump".
They were homeless for two and a half years before Dublin City Council offered them the city centre apartment. They thought their dreams had come true but it quickly became a nightmare.
