Newly-weds facedhousing problems

Newly-weds looking for homes in Carrick faced a “serious problem”, according to an Alliance housing councillor in February 1981.

Councillor George Flynn, a member of the party’s policy sub-group, said that young couples must be given housing.

He underlined an “urgent necessity” for more two or three-bedroom properties.

He added that four-bedroom homes accommodating families with five or more children, in some cases, and “bursting at the seams” which had been allocated ten years previously when people moved out of Belfast at the start of the Troubles, were no longer needed once children had grown up and required their own accommodation.

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