Independent Councillor for Dublin’s North Inner City, Christy Burke, is welcoming the development.
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22 of the units are to be delivered by the end of the year, with around 130 units fast-tracked to be installed soon after.
A Council report has identified five locations across the city for the homes.
St Helena’s Drive in Finglas will host the most modular homes, with 40 units set for the site, while Belcamp Avenue in Darndale will have 38 units built there.
The report states that the families in the units will be required to pay a few sort of rent and that they will be assigned a support team to help them move into more permanent accommodation.
Doolan said that the idea was a “gateway to homelessness”.
“We should be providing permanent sustainable homes in communities they can live in”. Essentially we’re just tinkering around the edges.
Of these, 738 are families, with 637 of them in the capital.
Although the families will be housed temporarily, the units will be added to the Council’s housing stock. “How are these families going to be selected?”, she asked.
“We went to visit them, I spent three hours visiting them, it gives families their dignity and their integrity”.
The Government had approved, in September last, the provision of 500 modular homes on sites in each of the four Dublin local authority areas.
“The long-term solution to all this is to build social housing because moving the problem from hotels to modular housing is not the solution”, he said.
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“It’s not about the physical units, people just want a place where they can raise their children and bring them to school nearby”, Focus Ireland Director of Advocacy Mike Allen told RTE Radio 1’s Today with Sean O’Rourke this morning.
