51 social housing tenants in Dublin owe more than €27,000 each in unpaid rent Average weekly rent paid by council tenants in Dublin city is €72

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  2. I’m not against social housing but when your average working chump can’t afford to live in an area , they just can’t live in that area and have to choose somewhere they can afford .. but to add to this since if your below 36k a year slaary you can technical get HAP are they also included in this ?

  3. So that works out to be over 7 year of unpaid rent.

    Nice one. I’d imagine if anyone came looking for it there’ll be none to be found

  4. > Mr D’Arcy also noted that 17,108 council tenants – 68pc of the total – were compliant in paying their rent when it was due

    That’s not good, but much higher than I thought

  5. 51 out over 100 thousand tenants.

    Plenty of affluent folk in massive arrears on the mortgages and living for free too…

    Social housing is a public good and some people won’t pay their rent. Evicting them into homelessness and paying HAP for them is way more costly to the state.

  6. Christ…..I live on a council estate and it’s more common than I care to agree with. The rent is dirt cheap to begin with and still people won’t pay. Baffles the mind, you essentially have a house for life for cheap rent and if things haven’t changed, I assume the option to buy it outright at a reasonable price after x amount of years renting is a possibility. So people in a council house can act the maggot, I’ve seen some comments saying people with mortgages don’t pay either (not sure of the validity of that)
    Seems like renters are truly getting shafted in this country, fuck it…..I’m getting another pint

  7. The total cost of arrears are only 3.5% of DCCs overall budget for the year. It’s less than ideal but it’s better to take a bit of a hit and make sure people are housed.

  9. Why doesn’t the council inform the social welfare to deduct it out off any benefits they get or ask revenue to deduct it out off their wages ?? They’re well able to take LPT out off your pay no problem!

  10. I don’t get why they don’t up that rent to something like 200 or 300 quid a month and build more houses and apartments. Am I stupid or is that not doable ? Edit : sorry thought it was a month not a week. I’m a silly boy

  11. I grew up in a council home and my mum always paid the rent, just because you are from a social housing unit doesn’t mean you are dodging the system

  12. Got chatting to this one a few months back. Pretty sure she’s in a council house in Dublin City Centre. She says her “work” is helping disabled people get on and off a bus or something.

    She was telling me how she’s getting new doors installed and that her garden was getting done out the back by the council.

    She sent me a pic of the back garden. It was unfucking real. New doors I expect were installed and paid for by council too.

    She lived alone. Didn’t have any disabilities herself and she wasn’t even Irish. Moved here a long time ago.

  14. Whenever somebody says council houses arent free im pointing back to this. Its also no surprise that 63% of tenants are in arrears and 63% of tenants just live off welfare, not sure if theyre the same 63 but id bet its a circlular venn diagram

  15. I don’t know why councils can’t get something in place where the money owed would be deducted from the person income ?Be that wages or social welfare.

  16. In the current climate of people desperate for homes, those who are in significant arrears (like 2+ years) need to be thrown out. Resources should be there for people who will contribute.

    The state or council should have basic overflow buildings, with the absolute bare minimum of facilities. Pretty much like a military barracks, you have a room with a metal wardrobe, a bed, and a metal side locker. The buildings have capacity to house 200 people. No more cushy hotels. I lived in many barracks’, absolutely nothing wrong with that set up.

    Your council/state provided wages and accommodation should reflect what you pay, just like a mortgage. If you don’t want to pay €72 a week, fine, you will be accommodated accordingly.

    Millions in outstanding payments, millions! That should be money thats being used to improve housing and facilities etc.

  22. This is 51 people

    That is nothing. If they are not managing basic care for themselves with keeping on top of bills, you can be sure they have some serious issues. The kind of issues that almost always come from exposure to the fall out of generations dealing with the hopelessness and violence of poverty.

    51 people. Who fuckng cares. This is not the source of the housing atrocities we’re left dealing with..

    Leave them alone with a roof over their heads instead of throwing them to the wolves when they clearly can bearly function as it is.

    Newspaper doing FG dirty work for them again. Slick moves right there .

  24. I know a person through a friend who is gleeful that he has a council property and hasn’t paid rent in nearly 3 years.

    “They started sending letters, then they just stopped. So why would I pay them?”

    I had to hold my tongue very tightly (conversing, nevermind arguing with this cretin is pointless) as I have never missed a month’s rent since I was 19 and don’t qualify for a place on my own now.

    €72 a week is nothing and if you’re unemployed etc it’s even less.

    I accept very few excuses for rent like this not being paid when there are families living in hotels, hostels and tents who would gladly pay double or triple that rent for a secure roof over their heads.

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