Sir, - You report (Property, September 24th) that the Spencer Dock Consortium is offering an "infinitely better site" for the social housing dimension in the Docklands area. Infinitely better for whom? No prizes for guessing that it is not for the people who would live in these houses.
The Dublin Docklands Development Authority is a State agency charged with the rejuvenation of a prime site. This involves the social as well as the built environment. In some small way this scheme and others like it can start to address a discredited system of inevitable housing segregation. The requirement that 20 per cent of residential units be for social housing is to facilitate integration. If the "infinitely better site" is allocated for these houses it defeats the plan.
The article talks of the developers being keen to "get around the blueprint for the area". If the DDDA allows that to happen, it will not fulfil its terms of reference. It is a blueprint that social housing providers such as this organisation applaud and which we expect the DDDA to implement to the benefit of all interested parties. - Yours, etc., Muireann Morris,
Sonas Housing Association, Gardiner Place, Dublin 1.