In any civilised country in the world you can get a 1 room apartment with galley kitchen and with a TOILET AND SHOWER included. These are called Studio Apartments.

However in Ireland and especially in Dublin we have a slumola relic called the Bedsit. ...instead.

A Bedsit is simply an Unsanitary ( and generally unsafe) Studio Apartment. So finally the government decreed in 2008 they be banned for being grossly substandard and the ban takes effect in 2 years. Not surprisingly the Landlords are attached to their money for old rope business model.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1010/bedsit.html


Convert them back to houses so lads or sell them to someone who will. We don't need any more Garda Kevin Galvin and his slums.

Many of us and our parents lived in these bedsits in our student days.

Personally I would like to see the back of them but there is a demand for this type of property (cheaper than 1 bedroom alternatives).

In addition, I suspect that many of these bedsits are let to RA tenants.

Studios are not 1 bedroom flats, they are bedsits with a toilet and shower. I lived in plenty in Europe and they are eminently better and safer than Bedsits knocked out of old houses with no insulation and feck all fire safety.

And you can shower and crap in privacy of course.

Is there really demand for these places?
As far as I know they're unrentable at the moment. I certainly know that where friends of mine were renting one/two bed places and there was a bedsit/shower on the corridor type flat, the landlord couldn't give it away.

Definitely time to see the back of them.

God they are greaseballs . The best solution for people with social problems is something like the French Foyer system which is a block/complex of Studio apartments with a concierge/reception desk that is permanently manned.

Scary on so many levels.

Elmer Fudd?

Bedsit landlords are scumbag money grabbing fucks .

I rented my first flat off one when I was 20 . I was lucky in that it was self contained . The bedsits had to share a shower and bathroom in the hall . The shower had a bundle of naked electric wires running just over it .
The people who rented the bedsits were all middle aged men who were either broken down alcoholics or men who had just seperated from their wives and had nowhere else to go .

Upstairs we had a 2 low level drug dealers and some low level criminals who used to break in the other flats whenever it suited them .

At 20 it was a fantastic life lesson in relation to money grabbing scumbag landlords . I swore then that I would never be at their mercy . I also applied that lesson to banks in later life as my landlord was a bank manager .

Bottom line is that none of them are safe . I was in heaps of them back in the day and if there was a fire everybody was fucked . There was not even a smoke detector anywhere or even anykind of basic safety . It looked like the houses had been converted by a inter cert woodwork class .

I too spend many a waking hour worrying that friends and family are left without a hoe.

I have lived in a few of these pre-63 death traps in the past when I started out as they say and I wouldnt keep a dog in them but there are two sides to the story. On the one hand you have the scumbag landlord who will rent to anybody in society including people who should be in the care of the state and then you have poor unfortunates whom life has taken a turn for the worse whether it be a dependency of some sort or a relationship falling apart.
The question is do these landlords provide a service of any kind whatsoever? Answer no as I have never come across a former tenant of a landlord who said that they were better off having spent anytime in a bedsit be it physically or mentally but I have (and this includes me) come across lots of people who were glad to get out of them and suffered while living in them. These landlords provide a hoovering up the social welfare service as most of these pre 63 dumps are not fit for purpose so they sould be banned, they belong to 'dublin in the rare oul times' shit and should be consigned there along with some of the neanderthal's that own them, they are parasites on the state and its time the tide turned and washed them out.

the good news is that DCC, who conduct inspections on behalf of the PRTB are shortly to recruit Enviromental Health Officers to target pre'63 properties.
Expect to see the advert in the papers any day now.

If people want to rent out bedsits that's their own business. At the end of the day, it's just another business transaction.

Wrong - the point of regulation is to address power and information asymmetries