When you are homeless you can avail of “homeless HAP” which is rent allowance + 50%. Rather than provide homeless families with state houses the government hand them a wad of cash (up to 1900) and set them loose on the private rental sector, driving up prices for people paying out of pocket.
The whole thing is fucked. The rent crisis is government created.
I think the issue of their being major differences in differential rent around the country has been known for a while.
I did think it was interesting to see this called out so clearly:
>Our analysis also raises questions regarding the targeting of supports to low-
income renters. As previously highlighted by Corrigan (2019), we find that a
significant number of high-income households in supported rental accommodation
pay rent no higher than that of many lower-income households in absolute terms,
and much lower relative to their incomes. Conversely, many low-income renters
receive no support from the State for their housing costs and face high rent-to-
income ratios, contributing to the chronic affordability challenges identified by
Blackwell (1989), Fahey (2004) and Corrigan et al. (2019), among others.
They also fairly clearly call out the dangers of just increasing HAP limits to try to combat low availability or top ups:
>In the short-term, rent limits in
a local authority could be linked to the price of new tenancies in that area, so that
a consistent share of properties be available within the limits right across the
country. However, while raising these limits and linking them to future growth in
incomes/rents may help ameliorate affordability pressuresin the short run, a large-
scale reliance on HAP to meet social housing needs in the longer run brings with it
the risk of fuelling rental inflation as well as further increasing costs to the
Exchequer.40 Rather, sheltering low-income households from the effects of a
chronic undersupply of affordable rental accommodation is likely to need long-
term investment in and expansion of the public housing stock for rent, as suggested
by McQuinn (2021) among others. Achieving such an expansion will undoubtedly
be challenging and entails more than just increasing expenditure; for example,
advancing reforms that increase the supply of housing, such as the taxation of
vacant or underdeveloped land (Morgenroth, 2016; Morley et al., 2015), as well as
measures to address delivery costs and barriers to the management of public
housing (Norris, 2020). However, addressing these challenges is key if the chronic,
long-running issues of affordability in the Irish housing market are to be overcome.
It’s so unfair. The minority of private renters should get tax relief or something.
I think IBEC had a report a few years ago that the government would be better off taking out massive loans and building as much as they can, because if they didn’t they’d pay the same amount via social subsidies like HAP in few years anyway and have nothing to show for it.
The government knew this and choose the HAP route, fair to say the crisis through and through has been an active choice, one could possibly say, one person’s HAP is another persons income…..
we must make those in power take notice. r/RentStrikeIreland If you don’t stand up for your rights then you might aswell not have any.
How many rented houses are in negative equity?
How many landlords increase their rent to offset the high tax and to meet their mortgage repayments?
Is there one single government intervention that is not fuelling this crisis
Someone told me recently that the big companies like IRES Vesta etc. don’t pay tax. They way a normal landlord has to. Can someone confirm this? If true imagine how much tax that would bring in?!
That’s a lot of money directly from the government into the hands of parasites who refuse to work.
State scroungers a kin to Fine Gael themselves.
Fine Gael cheats don’t just cheat us all, they are making enslavement to corporate interests the only option for your children.
What’s the total figure on this for perspective, how much of our tax is being used in this way to inflate house prices?
Wow that’s fuckin dumb. Rent subsidies should be for people struggling to pay bills.
Which means over 50 percent of renters can’t pay bills….how the fuck can they even feed and clothe themselves?
This is only going to get worse because the government doesn’t want to do anything about housing situation.
If you’re young, leave ireland before its too late
When the rent crisis becomes the bill of the government hopefully things will change
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When you are homeless you can avail of “homeless HAP” which is rent allowance + 50%. Rather than provide homeless families with state houses the government hand them a wad of cash (up to 1900) and set them loose on the private rental sector, driving up prices for people paying out of pocket.
The whole thing is fucked. The rent crisis is government created.
Unsustainable.
Interesting paper from the ESRI, actual paper here: https://www.esri.ie/publications/low-income-renters-and-housing-supports
I think the issue of their being major differences in differential rent around the country has been known for a while.
I did think it was interesting to see this called out so clearly:
>Our analysis also raises questions regarding the targeting of supports to low-
income renters. As previously highlighted by Corrigan (2019), we find that a
significant number of high-income households in supported rental accommodation
pay rent no higher than that of many lower-income households in absolute terms,
and much lower relative to their incomes. Conversely, many low-income renters
receive no support from the State for their housing costs and face high rent-to-
income ratios, contributing to the chronic affordability challenges identified by
Blackwell (1989), Fahey (2004) and Corrigan et al. (2019), among others.
They also fairly clearly call out the dangers of just increasing HAP limits to try to combat low availability or top ups:
>In the short-term, rent limits in
a local authority could be linked to the price of new tenancies in that area, so that
a consistent share of properties be available within the limits right across the
country. However, while raising these limits and linking them to future growth in
incomes/rents may help ameliorate affordability pressuresin the short run, a large-
scale reliance on HAP to meet social housing needs in the longer run brings with it
the risk of fuelling rental inflation as well as further increasing costs to the
Exchequer.40 Rather, sheltering low-income households from the effects of a
chronic undersupply of affordable rental accommodation is likely to need long-
term investment in and expansion of the public housing stock for rent, as suggested
by McQuinn (2021) among others. Achieving such an expansion will undoubtedly
be challenging and entails more than just increasing expenditure; for example,
advancing reforms that increase the supply of housing, such as the taxation of
vacant or underdeveloped land (Morgenroth, 2016; Morley et al., 2015), as well as
measures to address delivery costs and barriers to the management of public
housing (Norris, 2020). However, addressing these challenges is key if the chronic,
long-running issues of affordability in the Irish housing market are to be overcome.
It’s so unfair. The minority of private renters should get tax relief or something.
I think IBEC had a report a few years ago that the government would be better off taking out massive loans and building as much as they can, because if they didn’t they’d pay the same amount via social subsidies like HAP in few years anyway and have nothing to show for it.
The government knew this and choose the HAP route, fair to say the crisis through and through has been an active choice, one could possibly say, one person’s HAP is another persons income…..
we must make those in power take notice. r/RentStrikeIreland If you don’t stand up for your rights then you might aswell not have any.
How many rented houses are in negative equity?
How many landlords increase their rent to offset the high tax and to meet their mortgage repayments?
Is there one single government intervention that is not fuelling this crisis
Someone told me recently that the big companies like IRES Vesta etc. don’t pay tax. They way a normal landlord has to. Can someone confirm this? If true imagine how much tax that would bring in?!
That’s a lot of money directly from the government into the hands of parasites who refuse to work.
State scroungers a kin to Fine Gael themselves.
Fine Gael cheats don’t just cheat us all, they are making enslavement to corporate interests the only option for your children.
What’s the total figure on this for perspective, how much of our tax is being used in this way to inflate house prices?
Wow that’s fuckin dumb. Rent subsidies should be for people struggling to pay bills.
Which means over 50 percent of renters can’t pay bills….how the fuck can they even feed and clothe themselves?
This is only going to get worse because the government doesn’t want to do anything about housing situation.
If you’re young, leave ireland before its too late
When the rent crisis becomes the bill of the government hopefully things will change