The 62-year-old who has lived in O’Malley Park since the house was built in 1969, said, “I want to be rehoused somewhere decent”.
Over the years, he has watched the Corporation board up and demolish the houses that surround his own.
He told the Limerick Post these derelict properties adjacent to his are now being used to dump rubbish.
This has created what he described as a, “vermin infestation”.
He also claims that he cannot open any windows because disease-carrying flies that have gathered at the rubbish outside will enter his home.
He is now surrounded by these empty houses and has few close neighbours.
His own home has now fallen into disrepair and he sees little point in maintaining it as the dwellings around him are covered with overgrowth and litter.
As he does not own the house, he feels he is being neglected by Limerick City Council.
“If it was my house, I would have been rehoused somewhere comfortable now, but because it’s not, they don’t want to know”.
He says he has been trying desperately to be relocated along with his two sons, “I have been up and down to City Hall and I’m getting nowhere”.
This frustration led him to stop paying his rent three months ago. He argues: “Nobody should have to live in the environment that I do”.
The housing department at City Hall was not available for comment.
