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Affordable Housing & People w/Disabilities

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  • 24-05-2007 9:28pm
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    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users Posts: 10,635 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi

    This is a question for any fellow Disabled People:

    I have put my name on the affordable housing list for South Dublin County Council and recently received a letter of confirmation saying that they would be in a position to offer me a property within 18 months.

    However, I was also advised to put my name on the Social Housing List by someone in SDCC.

    What I want to know is, is there much of a difference in waiting time between the two lists???

    I would prefer to go for an Affordable home, rather than Social Housing, because I heard that they can offer you a place in, lets say, not so good locations???


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    Ronan H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Ronan H


    Regardless of which you apply for, i would suggest following up the letter with a request to meet a housing officer / representative face to face and get yourself known to them. I work in the area of disabilities and we support our residents to do that from time to time. When you are on a big waiting list with hundreds of people its easy to become just another name on a list so try and get in there and show you are serious about things and keep in touch with them regularly. It might help speed things along...

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    jdivision
    Registered Users Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    I think there is a separate affordable housing scheme available for people with disabilities. I think I did some research on it for somebody about a year ago who was looking for advice here about it. If you use google to search boards.ie you might find the thread. Apologies but I can't remember the details.


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