In the north inner-city, tenants of 15 years evicted so council can buy their home
Dublin City Council is buying 40 homes in the Northbank apartments. It is not clear how many tenants have been evicted for the deal to proceed.
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In Ballymun, residents learn their homes are soon to be demolished from a planning notice
The lack of information and communication from the council has been incredibly stressful, says Patricia Barber.
As Dublin City Council restarts buying second-hand homes to tackle homelessness, who will be prioritised?
The council is to partially restart its tenant-in-situ scheme, said officials, but mainly focus on buying second-hand homes for long-term homeless families.
In six years, Fingal has issued 68 warning letters to people operating short-term lets without planning permission
That seems very low in the context of the numbers of advertised short-term lets”, said Solidarity Councillor John Burtchaell.
Fingal needs to speed up its process for deciding whether people should get social housing faster for medical reasons, councillors say
The council says it has already done so, but councillors say the process can still take up to two years.
Fingal gets funding to keep anti-homelessness scheme moving
The Department of Housing has made available €6m to support second-hand home acquisitions, including under the tenant-in-situ scheme.
Government will have to shell out much more on rent subsidies after changes to rent controls, says housing advice charity
Otherwise, there could be near-catastrophic levels of homelessness, says Gareth Redmond, of Threshold.
Don’t push ahead with relaxing rules for beds in sheds, says Irish Planning Institute to government
The move would have “significant unintended consequences” and so the body “opposes this proposal”, it has said in its submission to a recent consultation.
Council takes step forward on redevelopment of Raheny seniors complex, despite holdouts refusing to leave
Dublin City Council on Monday approved the disposal of a site there for us as an ESB substation.
As the university year starts, lecturers are changing how they teach in response to the student accommodation crisis
Some are turning to longer, less frequent, classes – but there’s a pedagogical trade-off, says UCD lecturer Keith Wilson.
Renters in retirement villages should have unambiguous access to RTB, say charities for older people
“We don’t appear to have any regulations to cover people in that situation,” says Camille Loftus, head of advocacy for Age Action.
Look at converting some social homes in city-centre flats into cost-rentals, says Taoiseach’s group
No decision has been made on whether that will happen, a Dublin City Council spokesperson has said. But it hasn’t been ruled out.
RTB tribunal finds Tramco renters are licencees not tenants, overturning a previous decision
The landlord argued that the renters in the Rathmines building were hotel guests and that they didn’t have exclusive occupation.