Homeless families to move into Ballymun modular homes next month
Dublin City Council has said homeless families will move into the 22 modular homes in Poppintree in Ballymun in Dublin next month.
The project was originally meant to be completed by December but the Council say the units are now "substantially completed" with works to finish the entire estate expected to conclude in April.
The total cost is expected to be around €4.2 million, meaning each unit cost around €190,000 to build.
Latest figures show that there are 790 families and 1,616 children living in emergency accommodation.
Local Sinn Fein Councillor Noeleen Reilly visited the site this afternoon.
"There's a lot of anxious families waiting to get into them and have been waiting for a number of months.
"They were supposed to be ready at Christmas, unfortunately there has been a number of delays, but now the Council are saying that they will be ready in the first week of May.
"Some of them are ready but they're going to open them all together, the 22 units, because of they way the paths are for safety reasons."
