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THERE ARE A record low number of houses available to rent for people accessing the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), according to the latest report by the Simon Community.
The Simon Communities Locked Out of the Market report for September, which examines 16 areas around the country, found that there were only 35 HAP properties available to rent last month.
This is the lowest ever figure recorded by the Simon Community, with all 35 HAP properties falling within the higher discretionary rates while none were available under standard HAP rates.
It is a massive drop compared to September 2021, when there were 192 HAP properties available.
Of the 35 HAP properties, 23 were available within Dublin city, while there were none available in nine of the 16 areas examined.
These areas were:
For single persons and couples, there were 11 properties available under the discretionary rate, with only one available in both Kildare and Cork, while the remaining nine were in Dublin.
For a couple or a lone parent with a child, there were 13 properties available under discretionary rates. Of these, six were outside Dublin.
For a couple/one parent and two children, there were 24 properties available, with 13 of these overlapping with homes available to one-child families.
The report also found that there was a record low 392 available properties to rent at any price across the 16 areas, which is down 61% compared to September 2021, when there were 1,017 properties available.
Wayne Stanley, the head of Policy and Communications at the Simon Communities of Ireland said:
“If you break down the 35 properties available, if local authorities apply the maximum discretions available to them and put it in the context of the housing and homelessness crisis, in reality no properties are available to those trying to access privately rented homes to exit or avoid homelessness.
“In this context, the moratorium on evictions being considered by Government at the moment, is an imperative. However, it is not in itself an answer to the crisis. We need action that will increase the stock of affordable homes.”
Stanley called on the Government to act on both vacancy and engage with landlords who are seeking to leave the rental market to retain the current stock of rental properties.
It comes as the Department of Housing recorded a record 10,805 people accessing emergency accommodation in August, which surpassed the previous record set in July.
August is the eighth consecutive month where the number of people accessing emergency accommodation has risen.
In total, there were 7,585 adults who accessed emergency accommodation in the last week of August. Of those, 4,854 were male and 2,731 were female
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Can we be very clear here that AIB are talking about bonuses in respect of executives .. not the front line staff.. and yet again it will be the front line staff that will take all the flack the backlash and all the hurtful comments from the public when they are just trying to do their job .. believe me I know !
@Lance Chancer: are you one of the executives Lance
@kissmyarse: In all fairness, it sounds more like he is front line staff. Why would you think he is an executive if what he is saying is that it’s not fair that it’s the front line staff who get all the crap.
@Igot Noname: your a very clever boy
@kissmyarse: i’ll go all mad and assume you actually meant to write you’re and not your but at the same time i might not even be that clever and you meant i own a very clever boy
@Igot Noname:
Look I wish you well, i am not here to be nasty enjoy the rest of your evening
My Bonus at the end of the week is called my pay cheque … If i don’t meet my targets or preform well i risk loosing it…. So on top of their well paid jobs these greedy people want even more just to do their job…. Wow, i don’t know how the rest of us get out of bed with out the incentive of a big bonus. .
@Jamie Jj Tobin: My bonus is just receiving payment for my work in the Building Industry on most occasions we have to chase down the client to get some funds
@Jamie Jj Tobin: The best need to be well remunerated, that is an inconvenient fact. They can go to London, Paris or Frankfurt and earn multiples. We got screwed in the past with jobs for the boys, we are screwing ourselves now by ensuring none of the good ones will stay.
@Paul P O’Sullivan: if they could go to London or Paris and earn considerably more money, they would be well gone. This is a myth to perpetuate their greed and sense of entitlement. Better opportunities in Paris? Off you pop there kid.
@Ronan Sexton: They are mostly already gone. Your counter argument was so very predictable populist nonsense.
@Paul P O’Sullivan: I doubt those executives are gonna leave just so the Irish lads can take their jobs anytime soon.
@Paul P O’Sullivan: Well not lets hold back this wonderful talent then, let them gead off to pastures green!
Being a Bankster isn’t exactly rocket science contrary to the spin and spoofing we hear!
Bunch of barrowboys trying to figure out how they can screw even more from their “valued customers”
Give me a bucket!
@Paul P O’Sullivan: eh weren’t they all getting bonuses when they crashed the economy? Why does the strict low bonus culture work in Germany but won’t work here? Frankly, if what we are attracting is those that crashed the economy, those that are selling out families to vulture funds and those that masterminded the illegal overcharging scandals – let them go!
@Jarlath Murphy: Bankers will be redundant within then years, Digital money like cryptocurrencies are the future. Decentralized no Central banksters to print fiat money that loses its value on a daily basis Zero interest on deposits like at the moment where your money is losing value with inflation at 3% so your Euro on deposit is worth only 97 cent in a years time. If your bank becomes insolvent you as a depositor are on the hook for a bail in, to bail out the Banksters this law came in on the 1/1/2016. It makes no economic sense to have anything over day to day expenses in deposits in banks with zero interest rates and the risk of bail ins. Physical Gold and Silver, Cryptocurrencies, and commodities is where your money will at least hold its value and has every chance of making big gains into the future, all paper money ends up worthless in the end when inflation does what the central bankers want to devalue their paper money to lower the debt costs that at this point in time is totally out of control by Governments and personnel at 230 Trillion in USD terms The systematic failure of the 2008 crash was never seriously tackled the so called recovery was enabled by printing money out of thin air to buy bank and company junk bonds,and lowering interest rates to zero. The debt and bond markets are set to implode any day now and then the whole house of cards will collapse, and 2008 will seem like a walk in the park. Get out of fiat paper money or watch your wealth halved or at worst lose it all.
@Paul P O’Sullivan: let them go there. Second or third best will do fine. In fact its supposedly the ‘best’ that got us in debt for billions. We can’t afford ‘talent’ like that again. Lets have unambitious, reasonably competent people instead, for a fraction of the price.
As we are using the ridiculous term ‘bankers’ – which seems to mean everyone in financial services, how about we also ban ‘technies’ from getting bonuses too? They’re ‘all’ just harvesting our personal data without our knowing nor paying us for its use.
Is it beyond the wit of leaders and policy makers to devise a banking system that is run for the benefit of its customers and communities.
Evidently there are only two options????
1. Mega ego maniacs run it, taking risks with customers assets, and giving themselves huge bonuses if they show a paper profit at the end of a day, but fade away if they loose billions.
2. Civil service jobs for life crowd move in.
@DeFonz: Not every civil servants is on a permanent contract. Absorb that information and learn from it.
@Ciara Ni Mhurchu:
Correct me if I’m wrong but I understood that a person may well start out on a fixed term contract but the state would be obliged to give them permanent status after a number of years.
@P.J. Nolan: After 4 years of full-time employment they’re meant to offer a permanent position. That doesn’t mean after being on various temporary contracts that they can’t tell you there’s no work for you when your contact ends.
I’m a locum. Started as maternity cover, extended due to unpaid parental leave. Then offered a year contract which was extended by another year, ending on December 31st. My new contract might only be for a few months. I could be let go before the 4 years.
@Ciara Ni Mhurchu:
Much like the private sector then.
Welcome to the real world.
Let them these egotistical people got us into the bother on the premise that if you pay peanuts you get monkey’s ,well we paid well and what did we get
Leo gets paid extremely well even though he’s not qualified for the position & failed miserably with every single appointment & position held as a lowly minister. Didn’t himself & all his other cronies only recently get another large pay rise for nothing. Hypocrisy at its finest. As was pointed out previously- ordinary bank workers are not ‘bankers’. Big difference in every way but convenient to tar everyone in that industry with the same brush. In any case Bank of Ireland are not owned / controlled by the government so they’ll probably push ahead regardless as they announce redundancies galore over the next few years & Leo won’t do $hit.
In 2008 the consumer banking system was shown up to be what it is, a public service paid for by the tax payers. When the next financial crisis happens, tax payers will be there to rescue them and keep these employees in their jobs. Consumer banks that provide deposit guarantees should always remain in part public ownership, like the ESB. Irish semi state companies pay modest bonuses but not the extravagant banker style bonuses.
@Don:
And Irish semi states almost all make a loss.
@P.J. Nolan: a small loss is better than a catastrophically large one.
Bonuses is what created the Banksters mess!
Getting paid large suns for shuffling paper across their desks and giving loans to people unable to make repayments!
The only bonus they should get is not having to break stones while incarcerated!
@Don. We pay the highest electricity prices in Europe
Time to treat them as the criminals they are.
When I worked in sales we had “planned income”
We were paid 80% of salary on a monthly basis with the other 20% at risk unless we achieved 100% of target.
The “at risk” portion was paid every 3 months, so if we had any “duff” deals they were deducted from our performance v target.
I’d say, Bankers are The most “Un-Civil Servants”. As well as a combination of greed, fraudulent behavior, and incompetence
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