Housing list / living at home with mother

dartboardio

Can you apply for the housing list/HAP if for example you are in your young 20s, work full time on a minimum wage but simply cannot afford the high rents?

Can anyone apply to be on a housing list?

And what about HAP? Are only those with babies favoured? Surely there is assistance for young people moving out of home with no kids?


Also, I have a boyfriend who has a disability allowance quite a few years. Would he get a place /hap faster than I would? How does that work? Would it be easy for him to get on a housing list or get HAP, if say, he declared he had no where to live other than sleeping in his parents with no room of his own?

(Sorry for all the questions, just trying to gather information, I think it would be much more fair if working people got assistance too, and ones without kids too)

Gatling

You would have to be assessed as having a long term housing need ,as it stands it doesn't seem you have housing need ,if you want to move out your essentially on your own ,
You could look into renting a room or a house share

wifey28

As the poster above says youd have to be deemed in need of housing long term. If you are young and have a room in your parents you maybe rejected as not being currantly in need of housing.

But theres no harm in trying if you want to apply for hap, however youll most likely not get anything at all within the hap limits for your area which are under 500 euro mostly for a single person.

And just to note, getting on the housing list is one thing, getting a house is another entirely, most housing lists are +15years long, for a single person maybe even longer in places, and for a couple jsut as long. Families tend to get housed first as their need is deemed greater. Then you have people who get medical priority because of disabilities (severe disabilities often still wait 5+ years for a suitable home) or people with life threatening illness, who generally get housed within 3 years of getting priority (in cork anyway) these will always go ahead of you on the list as they come up

Your best bet is really to stay at home rent free for as long as you can and save save save.

dartboardio

Thanks for the info, I know the best thing to do is just stay at home with all the comforts and luxuries, just for future even for my first move out it would be handy to have the assistance lots others have (hap, rent allowance) instead of spending the majority of my wages each week on the full rent,

Would be good to look into. Thanks

Crunchymomma

I would presume most people who move out for the first time and don't have any kids don't get hap or rent allowance.

Pelvis

dartboardio wrote: »

Thanks for the info, I know the best thing to do is just stay at home with all the comforts and luxuries, just for future even for my first move out it would be handy to have the assistance lots others have (hap, rent allowance) instead of spending the majority of my wages each week on the full rent,

Would be good to look into. Thanks

Welcome to the real world, the majority of people don't get assistance and have to make do without a handout.

You're earning minimum wage. Most people would struggle to make ends meat. But you're young enough to change your circumstances, if you really want to, that's what you should be focusing on.

Wanderer78

Pelvis wrote:

You're earning minimum wage. Most people would struggle to make ends meat. But you're young enough to change your circumstances, if you really want to, that's what you should be focusing on.

Unfortunately we don't live in a world of equal opportunities, you d be surprised of the amount of people that remain on low wages long term, and some well qualified to

dartboardio

Crunchymomma wrote: »

I would presume most people who move out for the first time and don't have any kids don't get hap or rent allowance.

I know, what an awful world we live in!

splinter65

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Unfortunately we don't live in a world of equal opportunities, you d be surprised of the amount of people that remain on low wages long term, and some well qualified to

We absolutely do live in a world of equal opportunities wanderer. Anyone can take a night class at a local ETB school and advance from there into 3 level and avail of BTEA and or SUSI to get themselves a qualification that can get them a better job and a better lifestyle.
For those who aren’t academic there are lots of apprenticeships now to avail of to gain a skill.
Replacing equality of opportunity with equality of outcome is not going to work wanderer. It never has and it never will.

dartboardio

I suppose my point is more in relation to the government assuming working people don’t need financial assistance when it comes to housing or even medical care. The ones on an ‘average’ income, suffer the most!

splinter65

dartboardio wrote: »

I suppose my point is more in relation to the government assuming working people don’t need financial assistance when it comes to housing or even medical care. The ones on an ‘average’ income, suffer the most!

The “government” don’t assume anything of the sort. HAP and RS are both means tested. Plenty of working people get benefits including HAP.