Hap / Council House

Clondalkin Dublin 22

Hi I am looking to talk. To someone who has been offered a council house while on hap me and my partner are on the housing list 8 years and have to leave our home because the landlord is selling and we excepted a place on hap now my understanding is we are off the housing list and on a transfer list
So my big question is if people for example are being housed at year 10 and I am on the housing list 8 years then move to transfer list for 2 years am I just as eligible as people on the housing list 10 years?

Has anybody been housed into a council house while on hap
And if so how

And is it possible to stay on the council list
While on hap I don't want rumours has anybody done this?

wifey28

as far as i know you just need to send in a letter stating you wish to be kept on the list while recieving hap
alot of councils have also moved over the the cbl system now so if yours has you need to be logging in weekly and showing intereest in houses to get an offer

Gatling

wifey28 wrote: »

as far as i know you just need to send in a letter stating you wish to be kept on the list while recieving hap

Open to correction but I believe once you went on hap you only had a two week period to ask to be kept on the list

Clondalkin Dublin 22

Hi thanks for your comments I have heard myself you have 2 weeks once exsepted by hap to go on hap transfer list

But after intensive stress and research
I discovered most councils take you off the housing list completely and you start on year 0 on the transfer list
But luckily I have been told that we will stay on the list as normal because we are with South dublin City council and other councils have there own criteria regarding hap some remove you from list etc
I have been told by dcc I will stay on list as normal
If there is any change at all or red tape I will notify the board

Thanks again for the comments

Saudades

How exactly does the Housing List and the Transfer List work concurrently?

Is the Transfer List just a waiting list to get onto the Housing List?

So, if there are 100 people on the Housing List (same location, same number of bedrooms), and 100 people on the Transfer List, then applicant #100 on the Housing List is one place ahead of #1 on the Transfer List?

I can't really wrap my head around why there are two lists in the first place.

wifey28

Saudades wrote: »

How exactly does the Housing List and the Transfer List work concurrently?

Is the Transfer List just a waiting list to get onto the Housing List?

So, if there are 100 people on the Housing List (same location, same number of bedrooms), and 100 people on the Transfer List, then applicant #100 on the Housing List is one place ahead of #1 on the Transfer List?

I can't really wrap my head around why there are two lists in the first place.

The transfer list is a list of people who are already in social housing who for some reason need a different accommodation, be it a family who has outgrown a currant house size or someone who has become disabled so needs a different style of housing.



The housing list is people waiting to be housed.



Both lists are equally as long, someone on the transfer list maybe offered a house over a first timer in some cases.

lughildanach

What isn't clear to me, is when a property becomes available to be let, how do they decide from which list to allocate the house?

People accepting HAP are being told that by going on to the Transfer List that they aren't being prejudiced, as they hold their position and the time they have built up on the Housing List. But if that is genuinely the case, then what's the point in having two lists? Or is it effectively one list, just with those who have not been housed referred to as being on the housing list, and those in housing (or HAP) being referred to as being on the transfer list

And then there are the Priority Lists, and the various other more obscure lists that exist. To really know your chances of being housed, you need to know how the properties are allocated to which list.

While this information is obscured and not available to the public in clear accessible language, it makes the allocation system appear arbitrary, and completely open to abuse.