>One condition stipulates that the occupants must have been making use of the Housing Assistance Payment or Rental Accommodation Scheme for at least two years.
>The council is also no longer allowed to buy properties that require refurbishment.
These are perfectly reasonable if you ask me. What you don’t want is a situation where people engineer themselves to becoming council tenants when they’re not social tenants already. You also don’t want the city council to become a landlord of last resort for slumlords who refuse to maintain people’s homes to human habitation standards.
We need more enforcement in the rental market to drive slumlords and “accidental” landlords out immediately. If you’re not prepared to give ultra long tenancies and have the place kept immaculate, you’re not a landlord worth having in the market.
Just another government housing scam to make it seem like they are trying to improve the number of homes they have helped people to get.
DCC bought the apartment I was living in for 7 years and we (3 sharing) were all giving notices to quit as a result.
6 months later and the apartment still lies unoccupied. That’s a 3 bed apartment in Dublin City Centre in excellent condition that is just being hoarded by the council. It would make a great family home for someone and I hope that it is soon so that us being rendered homeless wasn’t in vain.
Joke of a scheme that should be shut down
It’s a ridiculous name. Why are we giving Latin names to schemes that we want to be widely available and understood by the widest range of people?
This is a scheme that only exists because the government wanted to remove the eviction ban but needed to do something to claim that it wouldn’t result in people being made homeless.
Nobody thought it would work. It was totally cynical.
Remember it though when they tell you what the new rent rules will do.
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>One condition stipulates that the occupants must have been making use of the Housing Assistance Payment or Rental Accommodation Scheme for at least two years.
>The council is also no longer allowed to buy properties that require refurbishment.
These are perfectly reasonable if you ask me. What you don’t want is a situation where people engineer themselves to becoming council tenants when they’re not social tenants already. You also don’t want the city council to become a landlord of last resort for slumlords who refuse to maintain people’s homes to human habitation standards.
We need more enforcement in the rental market to drive slumlords and “accidental” landlords out immediately. If you’re not prepared to give ultra long tenancies and have the place kept immaculate, you’re not a landlord worth having in the market.
Just another government housing scam to make it seem like they are trying to improve the number of homes they have helped people to get.
DCC bought the apartment I was living in for 7 years and we (3 sharing) were all giving notices to quit as a result.
6 months later and the apartment still lies unoccupied. That’s a 3 bed apartment in Dublin City Centre in excellent condition that is just being hoarded by the council. It would make a great family home for someone and I hope that it is soon so that us being rendered homeless wasn’t in vain.
Joke of a scheme that should be shut down
It’s a ridiculous name. Why are we giving Latin names to schemes that we want to be widely available and understood by the widest range of people?
This is a scheme that only exists because the government wanted to remove the eviction ban but needed to do something to claim that it wouldn’t result in people being made homeless.
Nobody thought it would work. It was totally cynical.
Remember it though when they tell you what the new rent rules will do.