These were the scenes on a north Dublin street yesterday for a viewing of a rental property.
The footage shared on social media shows dozens of people in a queue to view the property on Cabra Road. A search on Daft.it by Dublin Live shows six properties to rent in the area ranging from €750 for a single bed room to €3,300 per month for a three bedroom apartment.
It's just the latest scene in a growing housing crisis in the capital and across Ireland. Several Dublin colleges have asked for students to be put up in family homes while another renter in the city couldn't believe the rush to rent a "s**te box room" for €700 a month.
Read more: Dublin City University ask alumni to offer digs to students without accommodation
Many people responded to the worrying scenes on Cabra Road, with one worried renter saying: "The reason why I’m literally hours away from being forced to decide whether I must resign from my job and move, because in Dublin today, even when you can afford to live, it doesn’t mean you’ll find a place to. If the last place I just saw goes to someone else, I’m out."
While another added: "If the Commitments was written/filmed today that classic scene with the lad who assumed the queue of young people were buying drugs, would be some poor unfortunate who assumed the same queue was to view a gaff." And a third said: "How depressing, imagine being in that queue. You'd almost know deep down you're f*cked from the get go."
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