Local Authority Accommodation is the name given to a form of Public housing

Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the...

 provided in Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

 by various County Councils

Local government in the Republic of Ireland

Local government functions in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-four local authorities, termed county or city councils, which cover the entire territory of the state. The area under the jurisdiction of each of these authorities corresponds to the area of each of the 34 LAU I...

 and City Corporations

Local government in the Republic of Ireland

Local government functions in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-four local authorities, termed county or city councils, which cover the entire territory of the state. The area under the jurisdiction of each of these authorities corresponds to the area of each of the 34 LAU I...

 along with Urban District Councils. In Dublin, the most notable and visible example of local authority accommodation is the Ballymun Flats

Ballymun Flats

The Ballymun Flats refers to a number of flats - and often the tower block complex - in Ballymun, Dublin which is currently undergoing demolition.-History:...

 near Dublin Airport

Dublin Airport

Dublin Airport, , is operated by the Dublin Airport Authority. Located in Collinstown, in the Fingal part of County Dublin, 18.4 million passengers passed through the airport in 2010, making it the busiest airport in the Republic of Ireland, followed by Cork and Shannon...

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Estates of houses have been built around the country at various stages, typically to strict standards.

For example, in the Mulvey Park

Mulvey Park

Mulvey Park was built as a city council estate in Windy Arbour, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland around 1948 and features a large grass park, named for a former local councillor, which is regularly used for football matches....

, Windy Arbour

Windy Arbour

Windy Arbour is a small suburban village in the Dundrum area of Dublin, Ireland. Situated between Dundrum and Milltown, along the banks of the Slann or Slang river, Windy Arbour has amenities including a small supermarket, a Costcutter , two pubs, Ryan's Arbour House and The Corner HouseWindy...

, Dublin estate (now mostly in private ownership), houses boast solid granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 windowsills at the front, and solid granite front and back doorsteps. The rear gardens range in length up to approximately 50 metres for those backing onto the high wall of the Central Mental Hospital.

A nice feature of the Local Authority Housing is that familiar styles of "Corpo" (Dublin Corporation

Dublin Corporation

Dublin Corporation , known by generations of Dubliners simply as The Corpo, is the former name given to the city government and its administrative organisation in Dublin between 1661 and 1 January 2002...

) houses can be spotted all around the country. In Dolphin's Barn

Dolphin's Barn

Dolphin's Barn is an inner city suburb of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the Southside of the city in the Dublin 8, and partially in the Dublin 12, postal district. Its name derives from a family named Dolphyn who once owned a storehouse there. Surrounding areas include The Liberties, Inchicore,...

, a certain style of house might be built of poured concrete, while in Harold's Cross the same style house might be faced in brick. There might be more subtle differences between these and what are roughly identical houses at East Wall

East Wall

East Wall is an inner city area of the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.-Location:East Wall is bounded by the North Strand Road to the west, by North Wall and the Royal Canal to the south, and was bounded by East Wall Road, Dublin to the north until land reclamation extended that part...

. In 2006, the Irish Government budgeted just over €1 billion for social housing needs.