Junger Mieterin im Süden Dublins „wurde geraten, in die Obdachlosigkeit zu gehen, um einer Zwangsräumung zu entgehen“
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/young-female-tenant-in-south-dublin-advised-to-go-into-homelessness-to-avoid-eviction/a1965722951.html
Von alienstakenote
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A bit ghoulish that the solution isn’t fair and affordable rents but to siphon a greater portion of our taxes into the hands of landlords.
HAP was broken from day 1. Abolish it.
Oh look, it’s another story about how landlords are bastards.
The amount of public money spent on rent (HAP, RAS) here is absurd:
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Even if you’re not renting yourself you are still subsiding landlords.
A great little country to do business in
You’d want to feel bad for her, but did she ever stop to consider that maybe she wasn’t contributing to the landlord’s retirement fund at the *market rate*? Did she bother to tip him on top of the rent, or provide a Christmas bonus?
Something doesnt add up here
„A young girl who has lived in our rental property since 2017 received a notice to quit due to arrears,” said Cllr Keane at a recent South Dublin County Council (SDCC) meeting.
„She currently receives a €990 HAP payment which hasn’t increased since 2017 despite her landlord raising the rent every year – she already works outdoors over 40 hours a week, and has found it financially hard to cope.”
How much was her rent ? Not being funny but a single girl living alone is she living in a 2 bed gaff in Blackrock or something
Does she get 990 a month from HAP ?, works and still can;t pay rent since 2017 ? that’s 8 years ago. is she still not paying rent ? needs more details. i hate these kinds of articles
So despite the angle some on here are coming from it appears the issue is either the process is broken or she was advised by someone who got it wrong.
““…..she’s still on the old homeless HAP rate. I rang the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DHRE) to explain the situation and I was told it was not policy to support her with a top-up,” said cllr Keane.
„But instead, this young girl was advised to leave the apartment she is in and be homeless again so she could be paid the higher rate of homeless HAP.”
A spokesperson from SDCC told the Irish Independent that the increase can apply to both new and existing tenancies.”
Every day another scandal. But shur it’ll be grand, no accountability is the norm for everyone now. Doubly so for our political class.
Gotta treat the HAP situation like the market is on heroin. If you shut off the supply, things will go badly quickly. The only viable long-term solution without looking at things like rent freezes etc is to build high density social housing purely for renters and set the monthly payment at cost.
Renters will move out from situations where HAP is needed, that reduces the burden on the system and that same money that’s being spent on HAP can be re-infused back into the construction efforts. Over time you peel the bandaid off without causing a homelessness crisis of proportions bigger than what we’re facing now.
Obviously there’s the infrastructure issues to deal with on-top of this especially with high-density housing but for fuck sake lads if you go to any other European city you’ll realize we’re in the stone age while supposedly being one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
We have the means, we don’t have the political desire.
Successive governments: „We’re not going to declare a housing emergency. If you look at the numbers we’ve actually made year on year progress in terms of housing delivery.“
Just for once please stfu and properly acknowledge the issue. Our population went up and we’re just kicking the can down the road.
Feeding landlords as always and taking half measures to a disgraceful and worsening social disaster – the work and hallmarks of FF/FG.
The Government needs to take control of house building and stop giving our land to vulture funds and private landlords. “Not interfering with the market” is bullshit, plain and simple.
There is a ton of half empty office buildings in the city centre that could be renovated into apartments. Woukd being life to the city and help with supply.