Tenant in situ scheme

Contact your local HAP department or TD for confirmation.

I am selling to the council. One of the stipulations was that it is vacant on the day of the sale. Anyone else ive heard of selling to the council has had that too.

My guess is that your arrangement is probably not part of the tenant-in-situ scheme.

My guess is that its extremely rare. At least I havent heard from anyone selling under it. And I know quiet a few landlords either selling at the moment or getting ready to sell.

No mine was empty. My sister had 2 apartments. Council made her several offers and made it clear they had to be empty, but she didnt go with them in the end. Her last tenants were both HAP.

From the government's website:

Increasing tenant in situ acquisitions

• in light of the challenges in addressing homelessness, combined with continuing exits from the private rental market, Government will continue to support opportunities for the acquisition of properties to prevent homelessness and will take further targeted measures to increase acquisitions of properties where a landlord is selling the property
• in April 2022, Government reinstated the delegated sanction to local authorities in respect of social housing acquisitions. The reinstatement of delegated sanction has allowed local authorities to respond with more flexibility to secure acquisitions which support a household to exit or to prevent homelessness
• Government will support local authorities to acquire at least 1,500 social homes in 2023 with a further expansion of that target as required. The majority of these will be focused on properties where landlords are exiting the market and there is already a social housing tenant in place
• the Department of Housing has written to each local authority to instruct them to target acquisitions on HAP or RAS tenants under a Notice to Quit, develop their own acquisition plan and seeking a report on acquisitions in train for 2023 which is due to be received by the end of March
• the Department of Housing is setting up a “Acquisition Delivery Team” to ensure each Local Authority meets its Tenant in situ purchase targets
• a cost rental tenant in situ backstop will be applied on an administrative basis from 1 April prior to legislative enactment with a view to supporting households at risk of homelessness

[source] (emphasis mine).

From this it looks like it is a scheme that was small scale in nature but is being ramped up to deal with issues around the ending of the ending of the no fault eviction ban.

So people's experience of having to evict when selling to the LA in the past probably don't apply here to the same extent.

Where is all these cash coming from that government is using to buy so many houses to house people? Is there an infinite money tree in their garden?

Taxpayers own money being used to sh!t on them.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/i-gave-my-landlord-notice-and-now-in-a-few-weeks-i-could-be-homeless-sale-agreed-homebuyers-told-houses-now-sold-to-single-purchaser-42402071.html

That was my next question 💰

Such a disaster... Imagine even in Co mayo they have shortage... Seriously who is this single buyer

Although you have it in the thread title, could I ask if you definitely heard the sale is part of the tenant-in-situ scheme and who did you hear it from? Was it the landlord or do you have confirmation from the LA?

I think it may have been one of these schemes that is in the gift of TDs but deliberately not well known outside until the recent decision to allow no fault evictions when the scheme started to be discussed in the media. I would not be surprised if many staff in the LAs aren't aware such a scheme exits and are therefore continuing to insist on vacant possession.

There's another much more widely published scheme for mortgage holders. If they can't pay the mortgage through no fault of their own then there's the mortgage-to-rent scheme.

Something like this is needed though if no fault evictions are to be allowed again in times of rental shortage, so that people can keep their homes.