‘Northern Poverty’ – Belfast based housing firm rebranded
‘Northern Poverty’ – Belfast based company Northern Property had their signage rebranded last night [10/08/2021] in an action intended to highlight their promotion at a community festival, whilst they are conducting serious anti-community actions from evictions to property speculation, and pushing up rents to heights not seen before in the city.
Speaking outside the offices of ‘Northern Property’, the notorious West Belfast based lettings agent, Lasair Dhearg spokesperson Aindriú Mac Ruaidhrí said, “Lasair Dhearg activists have tonight conducted an action to highlight the absurd contradiction in allowing slum landlords to parade themselves as promoters of the community.”
“We’re here at outside Northern Property headquarters, and the Falls park which hosts Féile an Phobail – a community festival which was created to unite the community against regression, and at its heart still seeks to promote the rich culture, talent and diversity our community has to offer.”
“Yet in recent years we have seen anti-community forces attach themselves to the festival in a pursuit to normalise their presence in a community they exploit. Recent decades have witnessed the PSNI attempt to insert themselves as part of the festival, a move that was facilitated by the political elite of this area to appease a political campaign that seeks to normalise British policing in Ireland.”
“Now we have Northern Property attached to the Féile as sponsors, this is a business that is exploiting the community via extortionate rents, evictions, and property speculation – they are in part, responsible for the housing crisis that is destroying our communities. That plunges thousands into poverty. Yet because they manage the property Empires of the elites from this area – they’re welcomed to advertise themselves at this festival.”
“In Belfast alone there is 3,326 statutory homeless, with 10,819 families waiting on a home, and thousands more in housing stress due to unsuitable homes. This is the reality that Northern Property has helped create, and they benefit from it.”
“Recently they advertised a 3 bed house in Twinbrook for £750 per month. This followed a similar house they advertised in Lenadoon for £725 per month. They are victims of their own success they say. But their success comes at the misery of hard working families. They are parasites, and they should be treated like parasites.”
“Only a Socialist Republic can solve the housing crisis in Ireland. A Socialist Republic that would seize houses from those who seek to profit from what is a basic human right, and give it to those who need it most.”
