Huge queues of potential tenants waited in line on Wednesday evening to view a three bedroom home in Dublin city.
The property, located in Santry, North Dublin, held a viewing yesterday evening around 6:30pm and showed the true extent of the current rental crisis, Dublin Live reports.
An open viewing for the duplex apartment was advertised on Daft.ie, with the landlord asking for a monthly rent of €1,360 - around €600 less than the average rent for a three bedroom property in the area.
Other houses in the area are currently being advertised with monthly rents of between €2,000 and €3,000.
One interested renter - who has been searching for around six weeks for a place to live - was shocked to find the huge queues waiting outside the property.
They told Dublin Live: "I couldn't believe there was a queue like this to just at a run of the mill three bedroom property.
"It really sums up the housing crisis that Dublin is going through right now.
"We're hoping that we get the property as the rent is very reasonable compared to similar properties, but it's pot luck on whether that's going to happen."
The line for a viewing comes only a week after more than - including full time workers - were forced to queue at a Dublin soup kitchen.
Tony Walsh, the founder of Feed Our Homeless, pointed out around 130 of those who queued have jobs but are faced with bare cupboards after paying up to 70% of their income to rent a room.
He said: "It's all down to the rental market. Eoghan Murphy put €4 billion into the rental market when that could have gone into building social housing and 20,000 houses twice over.
"If there was enough social housing built the rents would come down because it's supply and demand and landlords are charging extortionate rents.
"They're giving away public land to private developers to build student accommodation when that public land could build public housing to reduce the numbers on the social housing waiting lists."
