Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
Some say they don’t have the information they need around how the prices of “affordable homes” have been calculated, or the legality of changing tack.
Residents of Glovers Court have been asking the council for years to address the issues at the 1976-vintage flats. The council has been looking at ways to better insulate them.
Part of the discussion focused on why the council had opted for affordable homes to sell, rather than to rent – and whether it was possible to revisit that.
This new deal is under a long-term leasing scheme brought in by the central government last year – and some question its value for the state.
Councillors weren’t impressed by that idea – or the plan for all the social homes to be clustered at one end of one apartment block.
Councillors in the Central Area met on Tuesday and talked, among other things, about plans to ask those in Stoneybatter where they’d like more plants and greenery.
The patch of land had been taken out of the new Traveller Accommodation Programme. Some councillors put forward motions to get it back in.
Earlier this year we asked our readers what issues they wanted candidates running for Dublin City Council to talk about. Supplying homes was the issue they mentioned most often.
What social housing will Dublin City Council get from big build-to-rent schemes that happen in the city? And other council matters from this month’s full meeting.
In October 2014, Dublin City Council owned 25,825 social homes. By January 2019, that figure had fallen to 24,503.
Councillors say there’s been a stand-off between the council and the receiver at the apartment complex in Finglas over sorting out fire-safety issues.
At Monday’s monthly meeting, councillors voted down the idea of relaxing rules around homes in back gardens, and railed against recent building heights changes.