One of the lads high up at DCC was on prime time maybe a year ago and said it doesn’t matter what you pay as long as someone gets housed.
25 year lease, council pay for all maintenance and management and at the end of 25 years they have to hand it back in the exact same condition it was leased.
It’s a scandal.
I emailed my 5 local TDs about the business post article last week saying the government plan to spend €450 million leasing 1000 units.
So far I have had 1 response from Paul Murphy saying he will bring some of my questions up with the housing minister and get back to me.
Basically throwing money into a black hole
”Own nothing and you’ll be happy”
Omfg what is wrong with these people?
DCC does not want to own, manage and maintain social housing anymore. That’s the bottom line. They’re getting out of providing social housing and anyone who is shocked by this news hasn’t been paying attention.
Millions in rent arrears, thousands on the housing list and major problems across all social housing estates had lead to this.
Approved housing bodies are the future of social housing in Ireland. They have the ability to force tenants to pay their rent or evict them without the political downsides of it coming from the council.
This time it won’t be the council creating ghettos, it will be approved housing bodies, long term leases and HAP owning 100% of apartment blocks creating ghettos.
DCC & the government are effectively washing their hands of the issue. Any problems with be a Garda issue and nothing to do with them.
In 20 years there will be no such thing as social housing estates. It will all be social housing “complexes” managed by approved housing bodies. There will be no more social houses, at least in cities like Dublin.
Only the existing stock is what they’ll have, and that is very small. Max 15 houses a year per housing area. Most of these will go to those with disabilities / disabled children.
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One of the lads high up at DCC was on prime time maybe a year ago and said it doesn’t matter what you pay as long as someone gets housed.
25 year lease, council pay for all maintenance and management and at the end of 25 years they have to hand it back in the exact same condition it was leased.
It’s a scandal.
I emailed my 5 local TDs about the business post article last week saying the government plan to spend €450 million leasing 1000 units.
So far I have had 1 response from Paul Murphy saying he will bring some of my questions up with the housing minister and get back to me.
Basically throwing money into a black hole
”Own nothing and you’ll be happy”
Omfg what is wrong with these people?
DCC does not want to own, manage and maintain social housing anymore. That’s the bottom line. They’re getting out of providing social housing and anyone who is shocked by this news hasn’t been paying attention.
Millions in rent arrears, thousands on the housing list and major problems across all social housing estates had lead to this.
Approved housing bodies are the future of social housing in Ireland. They have the ability to force tenants to pay their rent or evict them without the political downsides of it coming from the council.
This time it won’t be the council creating ghettos, it will be approved housing bodies, long term leases and HAP owning 100% of apartment blocks creating ghettos.
DCC & the government are effectively washing their hands of the issue. Any problems with be a Garda issue and nothing to do with them.
In 20 years there will be no such thing as social housing estates. It will all be social housing “complexes” managed by approved housing bodies. There will be no more social houses, at least in cities like Dublin.
Only the existing stock is what they’ll have, and that is very small. Max 15 houses a year per housing area. Most of these will go to those with disabilities / disabled children.