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Free houses or not Free houses ... "tenants" to be sued

MakersMark · 2022-06-13 19:11:42

I dont know what's more shocking, the amount of the arrears or the fact that the "rent" is less than €50 a week. These beacons of light need to be put in emergency sheltersand their houses given to the actual working class.

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#32 20-06-2022 8:09pm
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#33 21-06-2022 10:43am
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If you're the council and you evict them, you have to house them again.
For the same reasons social welfare tenants are not wanted by private landlords, when they are in arrears you will never get it back via the courts. Most court judgements I have seen were 5 Euros a week restitution, which was not paid.
I'm going to make a assumption and say the tenants being sued are working and clearly have the means to pay but choose not to. South Dublin has no "cap" on payments, unlike others, and I have seen some higher earning tenants getting salty about this.

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