Pay a small fee if someone vacates a 3 bed council home.

RandomViewer

Every country needs social housing, it has to built, people are attacking local author it y tenant yet turn a blind eye to white collar crime being rampant.

RandomViewer

Idbatterim wrote: »

yeah, this happens left right and centre. Just keep the very valuable property given to you for a pittance, work cash and pay no tax, I have heard of a woman , that simply works cash in evening, minds the kids during the day, the partner works regular hours. What a set up, no childcare costs, no massive mortgage, the job she works cash for, you arent exactly breaking your balls. the morons in charge, have created a fcuked system. I mean lets not be hypocrites here, if I had that easy street option open to me, I'd do it, many would. How many of us though years ago, could have foreseen this farce of a situation? those now beneftting from it, never had many asperations and would have just been passed on the council house or had their names on it for years (the list)... With this bull**** "oh just give up the job then and get your free house" not quite that simple, for people who intended on paying their way , it will take years on the list now BUT the dundrum luxury apartments are going to be the start of it, it makes total sense, depending on your circumstance, to put your name on the list! I've heard many even sub let their council properies for cash and live elsewhere, this council house thing, is some obscene racket!

Rent is means tested, if you are working you pay a percentage of income, depending in area I think it's around 15

Calhoun

RandomViewer wrote: »

Every country needs social housing, it has to built, people are attacking local author it y tenant yet turn a blind eye to white collar crime being rampant.

Whataboutery, we should hold all to account but as we are specifically talking about social housing the tenants will come under criticism.

As you say every country needs to build but not indefinitely and keeping multigenerations in one house without looking at need or selling off stock right now is not the way to go.

Lillyfae

Lillyfae wrote: »

Yes, if you buy one.

A friend of mine lived at home with his mom and she needed a new kidney. He gave her one of his kidneys, she died anyway, and he had to be out of the apartment within three months. It was barbaric but that was the rule.

That's a big difference in the Northern European countries. Rules are rules. There is no way they would have the sloppy attitude that they have here to people scamming the system.

Feisar

Yurt! wrote: »

The day I moved in with my partner to leave the houseshare life behind for good was one of the happiest days of my life.

Some of the oddballs I lived with over the years, I don't know how I did it. Jerome, with your jar of toenail clippings and sh*te hip-hop music, you are not forgiven for what you put me through.*

*This one is true to life

I'll see you your Jerome and raise you a drug dealer with his hooker friend!

Sound lad but oh my god was he thick. He thought the 10% over for speeding meant 10 over, i.e. 40 in a 30 zone was OK.

Arriving into the house on a Sunday evening was an adventure to say the least!

Idbatterim

take a read of this comedy lads!

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/sleepout-to-be-held-outside-south-dublin-co-co-to-protest-rise-in-council-housing-rents-977430.html

corks finest

We need more housing associations like Cluid, with stringent rule ref behaviour,drug taking etc,as a Cluid tenant in Carrigaline for 11 years I'm delighted that they are at last taking tenants behaviour seriously,one heroin dealer cum prostitute who broke near neighbours hearts for years got evicted after Christmas and another has got his marcing orders aswell (mentally unstable/hassling everyone near since 2007-, latest putting a breadknife to a girls throat- evening echo / examiner reported it) county councils are useless at evicting unruly criminals but need to cop on

RandomViewer

Calhoun wrote: »

Whataboutery, we should hold all to account but as we are specifically talking about social housing the tenants will come under criticism.

As you say every country needs to build but not indefinitely and keeping multigenerations in one house without looking at need or selling off stock right now is not the way to go.

Noonan gave the LPT to Irish Water instead of the council's, they have houses that need big money spent and its still a seventies house or they cut their losses and take 30 k for it. Money in the hand is better than in Dinnys pocket

Eric Cartman

Idbatterim wrote: »

take a read of this comedy lads!

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/sleepout-to-be-held-outside-south-dublin-co-co-to-protest-rise-in-council-housing-rents-977430.html

Im not sure they make a violin small enough or a song sad enough for me to play for those people. 3 euro a week, if they even pay it....

Idbatterim

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Im not sure they make a violin small enough or a song sad enough for me to play for those people. 3 euro a week, if they even pay it....

they have some fcuking GALL to highlight the pittance that you and I on their behalf! Jesus this country is insanity! insanity!

They should be doing home swaps with the high earners, every six months, why should anyone be better off than them? have rte proposed that yet or would the hypocrites there, never dream of it? despite befriending margaret Ca$h and co?

BanditLuke

RandomViewer wrote: »

Every country needs social housing, it has to built, people are attacking local author it y tenant yet turn a blind eye to white collar crime being rampant.

You'll find that on here a lot it seems, the attacking of those in social housing. Just checked back there on thread history literally scores of threads on it and yet next to nothing on white collar criminals who cost the country billions.

We pay what 6 billion a year interest alone for white collar banking and financial crooks debt repayments and yet people get all bent out of shape over 60m council rent arrears for the whole of Dublin. Weird

Idbatterim

BanditLuke wrote: »

You'll find that on here a lot it seems, the attacking of those in social housing. Just checked back there on thread history literally scores of threads on it and yet next to nothing on white collar criminals who cost the country billions.

We pay what 6 billion a year interest alone for white collar banking and financial crooks debt repayments and yet people get all bent out of shape over 60m council rent arrears for the whole of Dublin. Weird

The piss taking here, goes on right at the top and at the "bottom"!

10000maniacs

The laws on security of tenure have to be looked at too if this is going to be fixed. Its a free pass to a free house for life.

Spanish Eyes

I doubt there would be a shortage of lets if the law said that say, three months notice and you are out for non payment of rent and/or damage/ASB

The notice periods are humungous now for LLs. But even at the end of that notice period there is a cohort who will stay on, refuse to pay rent and there is nothing LL can do other than take a case to RTB, enforce it, and eventually involve the Bailiffs. Costs a lot.

I know this on behalf of a relative who passed away. It worked kind of ok in the end but instead of the tenants being out on or before notice period was up, they stayed a further seven months, citing nowhere to go. Council eventually got it sorted, but not before we presented a Determination Order from RTB. Stress almighty.

Has to work both ways. No wonder people are leaving the rental market as LLs. The Reits and so on are ok they have built in a legal cost in the rent I reckon and have might behind them.