Using compulsory purchase orders to acquire properties for housing is generally a last resort. Photograph: iStock
A senior local authority official has had his town postered with claims that he is worse than a Nazi for trying to take vacant and derelict properties into State ownership.
Coilín O’Reilly, chief executive of Carlow County Council, said using compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) to acquire properties for housing was not culturally acceptable to all.
“You are taking a piece of property from somebody,” he said.
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