After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
Official figures show an small uptick in landlords telling the RTB they were claiming an exemption from rent-cap rules because their properties hadn’t been rented for a while, or ever. But the totals are still small.
People who have moved to Dublin from other countries are among the most vulnerable tenants in the city, more likely to be renters, to live in overcrowded apartments, and to end up homeless.
During marathon meetings last week about the next city development plan, councillors voted to keep in local policies in the draft that likely clash with national guidelines.
None of the second round of affordable rental homes funded with help from the government’s Cost Rental Equity Loan scheme will be in the city. None of the first were either.
“The near-total dominance of this typology has adverse long-term consequences for the creation of sustainable communities,” council chief Owen Keegan has said.
In his efforts to make sure his apartment complex in Swords is secure and maintained, he’s up against a Cypriot subsidiary of a fund with more than half-a-billion euro worth of property in Ireland.
The Residential Tenancies Board has published the names of landlords it has fined or cautioned for breaking laws governing rental homes, including Propmaster Ventures.
