On a crisp, sunny morning this Monday, steam scented with the fresh smell of clean laundry rose from the basements of twin Georgian buildings on Dublin’s Upper Gardiner Street.  A woman in slippers could be seen attending to a washing machine through an open door, where a toy drum was lying on the floor and discarded cigarette butts lined the ground along the outside railings. The scene looked like any other picture of daily life in the north inner city, except the building’s residents are homeless and the State pays its landlord over €1 million each year to accommodate them.…

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